文档介绍：RADICAL ORTHODOXY
‘Despite all the media claims about the imminent demise of mainstream Christianity…a
collection such as this displays an intellectual power, a learning and conceptual imagination,
that few if any other groups could achieve.’
Fergus Kerr, University of Edinburgh
‘If theology offers a continuing reflection on the implications which the practice of faith
holds for probing the reaches of the human condition, then it will constantly be utilizing
philosophical strategies in its quest for such understanding. That makes philosophy a
“handmaid of faith,” yet rather than reduce its stature, offers ways of extending its tentative
explorations. The contributors to this volume provide just such explorations to tease us
well beyond “philosophy of religion” to fresh theological horizons.’
David CSC, Hesburgh Professor of Philosophy and Theology,
University of Notre Dame
Radical Orthodoxy returns theology to the centre of contemporary critical debate. The
contributors develop a drastic critique of secular assumptions in order both to recover
and develop the most authentic Christian thought of the past. Arguing that it is no longer
acceptable to modate theology to prevailing wisdom and fashion, they reject both
humanism and postmodernism, in favour of a theological construal of the radically
indeterminable.
The endeavours of Radical Orthodoxy are characterised by four crucial claims:
• secular modernity is the creation of a perverse theology;
• the opposition of reason to revelation is a modern corruption;
• all thought which brackets out God is ultimately nihilistic;
• the material and temporal realms of bodies, sex, art and sociality, which modernity
claims to value, can truly be upheld only by acknowledgement of their participation in
the transcendent.
Radical Orthodoxy is a remarkable collection of papers that aims to reclaim the world by
situating its concerns and activities within a theological fra