Paleoorthodoxy

Paleoorthodoxy understands itself to be postlib, postmodern, postfundy, postneoanything, since the further one "progresses" from ancient apostolic testimony the more hopeless the human condition becomes.

Dorrien also notes that, despite his critique of “paleoorthodoxy,” Bloesch belongs “to a group of 'Great tradition' evangelicals who are clearly more interested in pursuing dialogue with conservative Catholic and orthodox theologians than with progressive evangelicals."

Evangelical figures and groups who 'converted' to Roman Catholicism or Eastern Orthodoxy, in search of a return to the sources and to some 'Golden Era' of church history – here he specifically mentions Thomas Howard and Peter Gilquist, or those who uncritically and thus unhelpfully appropriated aspects of patristic theology, such as the Emerging Church and paleoorthodoxy.