Neology

General Usage

Neology or Neologism, is an expression most frequently associated with the coining of new words, from the Greek root (Neo-: new, and Logos-: the word). This practice may be compared with other less mentally intensive, although sometimes computationally intensive forms of wordplay such as anagrams and acrostics, as well as fully developed theories or practices of language, such as aphorisms, poetics, and literary essays.

Sometimes Neology is seen as related to the development of new isms, since a new word can mean a new idea.

Specific Usages

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Background
Protestant Reformation Counter-Reformation Aristotelianism Scholasticism Patristics
17th-century scholastics
Second scholasticism of the Jesuits Lutheran scholasticism during Lutheran Orthodoxy Ramism among the Reformed scholastics Metaphysical poets in the Church of England
Reactions within Christianity
Labadists against the Jesuits Pietism against orthodox Lutherans Nadere Reformatie within Dutch Calvinism Richard Hooker against the Ramists
Reactions within philosophy
Modernists against Roman Catholics Neologists against Lutherans Spinozists against Dutch Calvinists Deists against English Christianity John Locke against Bishop Stillingfleet

Neology is the name given to the rationalist theology of Germany or the rationalisation of the Christian religion. It was preceded by slightly less radical Wolffism.

References

• Neologisms
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See also

• Deism