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'''''Fade''''' is a novel by [[Robert Cormier]].

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'''Neo-orthodoxy''' is an approach to [[theology]] that was developed in the aftermath of the [[First World War]] (1914-1918). It is primarily associated with the Swiss [[Protestant]] [[Karl Barth]] (1886-1968) and theologian [[Emil Brunner]] (1899-1966). Some theologians believe that [[Reinhold Niebuhr]] (1892-1971) and [[H. Richard Niebuhr]] did more to introduce neo-orthodoxy to America than anyone else

==main plot==

The main plot of “fade” is about this boy named Paul Moreaux and is gift that is family has from generation to generation and only from uncle/aunt to nephew and show how evil and cruel people are in is world.

===Origins and Reasons===

==Plot introduction==

In the UK, the neo-orthodoxy movement is represented by the United Synagogue and the Federation of Synagogues. Neo-orthodoxy focuses on the idea of "''Torah im Derech Eretz'' and believe that modern life and study is not incompatible with Judaism.

The book take place in the year 1938 it is summer and a young boy named Paul Moreaux discover that he has the ability to disappear or how the Author says in this story “fade” which you know is the title of this story. The young boy thrilled an amazed with his newly found ability or “gift” as you so call it. Later Paul discover a lot of shocking thing when he experiments with his “gift” secretes that will drives him into chilling act that can not be forgetting nor there can be any forgiveness and no turning back from. Paul will discover how cruel and disgusting the world can be.

==Major themes=Theology===

They believe in a complete adherence to Mitzvot and believe that the Torah came from Mount Sinai.

The story tells how power is not always what you expect. There will always be a nagging and overpowering voice in the back of Ozzy’s head Ozzy is Paul’s nephew that will never stop telling him to bad thing, and to leave an evil mark on the world. For example if he is walking and comes upon a poor innocent cat the voice would tell him to beat the poor helpless cat to death

===Revelation===

==Literary significance & criticism==

There is a strong emphasis on the [[revelation]] of [[God]] by God as the source of Christian [[doctrine]]. [[Natural theology]] states that knowledge of God can be gained through a combination of observation of nature and human [[reason]]. Barth totally rejected natural theology. Brunner believed that natural theology still had an important role and this led to a sharp disagreement between the two men.

Because of the novel's content that includes scenes of murder and incest many adults think this book is unitproprite for young adults which they mean their kid that are reading this book. But the author Robert Cormier shows the readers that the world is not all nice. The entire story’s that Robert Cormier wrote deals with this happening to the world.

===Transcendence of God===

There is a stress on the [[transcendence (religion)|transcendence]] of God. Barth believed that the emphasis on the [[immanence]] of God had led human beings to imagine God to be ourselves writ large. He stressed the infinite qualitative distinction between the human and the divine.

===Existentialism===

The neo-orthodox theologians made use of [[existentialism]] and in particular [[Christian existentialism]]. Barth was strongly influenced by the writings of the 19th century Danish philosopher [[Søren Kierkegaard]]. Kierkegaard was a critic of the liberal [[Modernist Christianity|Christian modernist]] effort to rationalise Christianity. Instead, under pseudonymous names such as Johannes Climacus, he maintained that Christianity is absurd (transcends human understanding) and presents the individual with paradoxical choices. The decision to become a Christian is not a rational decision but a leap of [[faith]]. This was the foundation of Barth's theology of crisis.

== Relation to Other Theologies ==

Neo-orthodoxy is distinct from both [[Liberal Christianity|liberal Protestantism]] and [[Fundamentalist Christianity|fundamentalism]]. This can be seen in Barth's understanding of the Bible. He rejected the fundamentalist claim that the [[bible|Christian scriptures]] are inerrant. He rejected the [[modernism|modernist]] liberal Christian claim of that time, that God could be known through human scholarship. He believed that the Bible was the key place where the Word of God can be revealed to human beings, and that an existential leap of faith is required by the individual to hear what God has to say.

== See also ==

* [[Christian existentialism]]

* [[Paleo-orthodoxy]]

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