Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping a Post-secular Theology

Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping a Post-secular Theology

Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping a Post-secular Theology

Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping a Post-secular Theology

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Overview

Although God is making a comeback in our society, popular culture still takes its orders from the Enlightenment, a movement that denied faith a prominent role in society. Today, many are questioning this elevation of reason over faith. How should Christians respond to a secular world that continues to push faith to the margins?

While there is still no consensus concerning what a postmodern society should look like, James K. A. Smith suggests that the answer is a reaffirmation of the belief that Jesus is Lord over all. Smith traces the trends and directions of Radical Orthodoxy, proposing that it can provide an old-but-new theology for a new generation of Christians. This book will challenge and encourage pastors and thoughtful laypeople interested in learning more about currents in contemporary theology.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781441206114
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/01/2004
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 296
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

James K. A. Smith (Ph.D., Villanova University) is the Gary & Henrietta Byker Chair in Applied Reformed Theology & Worldview at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In addition, he is editor of Comment magazine and a senior fellow of the Colossian Forum. He formerly taught at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Active in both the church and the academy, Smith is the author of Speech and Theology (part of the Routledge Radical Orthodoxy series) and The Fall of Interpretation.

Table of Contents

Foreword11
Acknowledgments21
Abbreviations24
Introduction: A Theological Cartography25
Between Cambridge and Amsterdam: Outline of a Project
A Reader's Guide: For the Perplexed
Part 1Orientation
1Inhabiting the Post-secular: Why Radical Orthodoxy? Why Now?31
Mapping the Postmodern Terrain: From Tubingen to Cambridge
Augustine in Paris: Sources and Influences
Defending the Secular: A Survey of Criticisms
Inhabiting the Post-secular
2Elements of a Manifesto: The Movements of Radical Orthodoxy63
Defining Radical Orthodoxy: School, Movement, or Sensibility?
A Symphony in Five Movements
A Reformed Rendition
3Radical Orthodoxy's "Story" of Philosophy: From Plato to Scotus and Back87
Radical Orthodoxy's History of Philosophy: Of Narratives, Tall Tales, and Meta-history
Beginning from the Middle: The Modern Turn (to Nihilism)
The Scotus Case
From Univocity to Nihilism
Once upon a Time There Was Plato
Platonism/Christianity
The New Plato
Back to Augustine
Postmodern Augustines: Caputo and Derrida
A Radically Orthodox Augustine: Ward and Milbank
A New Aquinas: Graced Nature
Part 2Navigation
4Postmodern Parodies: The Critique of Modernity and the Myth of the Secular125
Modernity as Heresy
Modernity as Parody
Statecraft: A Secular Ecclesia
Divine Cities: A Secular Kingdom
More Modernity: On the So-Called Postmodern Turn
5Possibilities for the Post-secular: Faith, Reason, and Public Engagement143
The Pretended Autonomy of Secular Thought
Secular Theologies
Scholasticism in Theology
Faith and Reason Revisited: The Aquinas Case
The Traditional Thomas
The New, RO Aquinas
Doubting (RO's) Thomas: Criticisms
Philosophy and Theology: Anatomy of a Relation
The End of Apologetics
Inverting the Emperor's Tale: Political Spaces for Confessional Voices
6Participation and Incarnation: Materiality, Liturgy, and Sacramentality185
Suspending the Material: On Participation
Counter-Ontology 1Materialism and Transcendence
Counter-Ontology 2Difference and Peace
A Reformed Caveat: The Goodness of Creation and Plato Revisited
The Goodness of Creation
Eschatology
The Integrity of Creation and the Specter of Occasionalism
A Case Study: Leibniz-Deleuze and the Integrity of Creation
Planes of Immanence: Deleuze's Leibniz and a "Hymn to Creation"
Giving the Creator His Due: Leibniz on Nature and Creation
Creation as Miracle: The Critique of Occasionalism
Against the Idol of Nature
Integrity, Immanence, and the Folds of Creation: Implications for a Creational Ontology
Affirming Immanence in a Creational Ontology
Meaning, Expression, and Transcendence
Foldings and Enkapsis: Dooyeweerd, Deleuze, and Leibniz
The Beauty of God: Liturgy and Aesthetics
7Cities of God: Cultural Critique and Social Transformation231
The Church as Social Theory
A Christian Sociology
Redeeming Community: The Church as Polis
Against Ethics: Christian Morality and the Antithesis
Erotic Subjects: A Postmodern Augustinianism
Technologies of Desire: Church, State, Market
RO's Church: Questions and Reservations
A Creational Church? Questions about the State as Ecclesia and the Church as Polis
A Church without Boundaries?
Conclusion: Taking Radical Orthodoxy to Church261
Bibliography263
Name Index279
Subject Index285
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