Bible Translators Theologians Neo-Lutheranism was a 19th-century revival movement within Lutheranism which began with the Pietist-driven Erweckung, or Awakening, and developed in reaction against theological rationalism and pietism.
The term has been defined different ways to distinguish it from the Old Lutherans movement, which was a schism in areas where a church union was enforced.
The repristination theology group was represented by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg, Carl Paul Caspari, Gisle Johnson, Friedrich Adolf Philippi, C. F. W. Walther, and others.
The Erlangen School tried to combine Reformation theology with new learning and included Franz Hermann Reinhold von Frank, Theodosius Harnack, Franz Delitzsch, Johann Christian Konrad von Hofmann, Karl Friedrich August Kahnis, Christoph Ernst Luthardt, and Gottfried Thomasius.
Neo-Lutheranism is distinct from the term "neo-Protestantism", which is an exclusively liberal theology represented, for example, by Adolf von Harnack and his followers.