The poverty of radical orthodoxy
By: edited by Lisa Isherwood and Marko Zlomislić ; contributors: Marko Zlomislić ... [et al.].
Series: Postmodern ethics series -- 3
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Eugene, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781608999378
Subjects: Philosophical theology
Description: "Radical Orthodoxy, whose founding father is John Milbank, claims that God has been pushed to the margins in modernity and that a false and misleading neo-theology has taken hold that needs to be revisited and contested. It is this return to the premodern that often leads theologians to have reservations about Radical Orthodoxy when they might otherwise have some sympathy for many of its positions. Radical Orthodoxy, like most traditional theology, claims that the power of God is in all creation and that God sits everywhere for all to partake of. But there appears to be a failure to see that the church and theology do not set in place systems that live out this basic assumption. Liberation theology, while sharing much of the same assumption that God is everywhere and to be shared, at the same time engages in a critique of the structures that claim to facilitate this vision, and finds them wanting. From here, then, liberation theologians attempt to refigure our understanding of shared power in order to broaden the vision, while it may be argued that Radical Orthodoxy simply restates the assumption with little political critique of the issues. Perhaps this point explains why this book is titled The Poverty of Radical Orthodoxy rather than Radical Error!" -- Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Impoverished desire  -- Lisa Isherwood; title: Evidential theology, an antidote to orthodoxy: an example  -- Michael J. Todd; title: J.G. Hamann and the self-refutation of radical orthodoxy  -- Katie Terezakis; title: Less sublime allure of the paradox: some Kierkegaardian provocations to John Milbank  -- Leo Stan; title: Girls and boys come out to play: feminist theology and radical orthodoxy in Ludic encounter  -- Jenny Daggers; title: Radical orthodoxy and the closed Western theological mind: the poverty of radical orthodoxy in intercultural and interreligious perspective  -- Paul Hedges; title: Reading Yoder against Milbank: a Yoderian critique of radical orthodoxy  -- Angus Paddison; title: Touch, flux, relation: feminist critique of Graham Ward's "The schizoid Christ"  -- Sigridur Gudmarsdottir; title: Communities of faith, desire, and resistance: a response to radical orthodoxy's ecclesia  -- Christopher Newell; title: Paper cut-outs of Christ in Plato's cave: casting aside radical orthodoxy  -- Marko Zlomislić; title: Eucharist is drive -- Marcus Pound.