Paleo-orthodoxy

Paleo - Orthodoxy (Greek παλαιός Palaios, old ' and ὀρθοδοξία orthodoxia, orthodox ') is a theological movement within the U.S. Protestantism.

Name and boundaries

The name of Paleo - orthodoxy sets itself apart from other theological directions. Firstly, the prefix Paleo indicates a demarcation on the theology of the Orthodox Churches, which are colloquially referred to only as orthodoxy. Across from the Paleo - orthodoxy takes back further in time on beliefs that were common to all Christian churches before the schism of 1054. On the other hand, there is a distinction to so-called older Protestant orthodoxy, a theological flow of the 16th and 17th centuries, and to dialectical theology, which is referred to, particularly in the United States as a neo-orthodoxy. The beliefs of the latter are much more recent and for the theological views of the Paleo - orthodoxy is not relevant.

Theological basis

The Paleo - orthodoxy wins their theological views from the decisions of the Ecumenical Councils and the early church fathers. It is geared to understand the broadest possible consensus of these views as matching doctrinal basis of all Christian churches. This is a continuation of a statement by Vincent of Lérins:

" Quod ubique, quod semper, quod omnibus from creditum est. "

" The thing everywhere, whatever what was believed by all. "

In its strictest sense is at the Paleo - orthodoxy to a radical approach of Ecumenical Theology, by the church-dividing doctrinal decisions later time trying to look through earlier doctrinal decisions as irrelevant.