Neo-Orthodox Discourse in Protestant Theology

The post-war spiritual crisis of European society led to the destruction of the system of moral and religious values. The devastation of the meaning of life has led to the spread of pessimistic sentiments about the validity of the judgments of the human mind and the restructuring of society on the basis of social justice. In the conditions of secularization, there is an active search for the construction of such a model of Christianity that would harmonize with the modern world. By asserting the freedom of worldview and the right to deepen the rational understanding of the transcendent essence, Protestantism produces a neo-Orthodox theology, which defined the basic ideas of authenticity and morality of man on the basis of his existence. The aim of the article is to understand the specifics of neo-orthodoxy as a religious phenomenon and its importance in the progress of modern religious and philosophical anthropology and Christology.

In the process of studying the views of representatives of unorthodox theology, the phenomenological methodology of religious analysis was used in the field of systematization of neo-orthodox doctrines of various Protestant thinkers, which involves its consideration in the unity and diversity of social manifestations. The structural-functional method is reflected in the process of comparing anthropological, Christological and soteriological concepts in the teachings of theologians as fundamental to the evolution of Protestantism.

A new view of the spiritual heritage of previous generations and their acquisition of orderly diversity become for man a sense of self-identification. Ensuring sustainability in the processes of existential transformation has become possible through the existential understanding of the basic vectors of human subjectivity. Determining the need of society for internal revival, orthodoxy, as a direction of Protestant thought, proposed a reconstruction of ideas that met social needs. Military events in Ukraine, social cataclysms, economic, political and spiritual decline in many countries of the modern world highlight the need to find lost meanings within the Christian tradition.