Radical Orthodoxy – Wikipedia

Radical Orthodoxy is a Christian-theological movement that is attributed to theologians from different denominations. It was founded by John Milbank. Your starting point is in his book Theology and Social Theory (1990). The name of the movement goes back to the title of the following book: Radical Orthodoxy, A New Theology , hg. v. John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock und Graham Ward (Routledge 1999).

The name emphasizes the close relationship of movement with traditional church teaching. “Radical” (lat. radix , “Wurzel”), “Orthodoxy” (Gr. correct Orthodox “Right, straight” and glory Dolo “Teach”, “( God -) Venue ”, so Faithfulness ).

Radical Orthodoxy is a criticism of secularism and Kantian metaphysics. It opposes a resignation of Christianity in relation to the truthfulness of language and brings politics, ethics, cultural studies, art, natural science and philosophy into a conversation with theology.

Important modern influences are Henri de Lubacs ontology, Hans Urs of Balthasar’s theological aesthetics and Karl Barth’s criticism of liberalism, as well as the close relationship between the Oxford movement with the Catholic Church and the Platonic philosophy of the Cambridger Platoniker. Important classic sources are Augustine, Thomas Aquin, Nikolaus von Kues and Master Eckhart.

Radical Orthodoxy claims that Johannes Duns Scotus is the father of modernism.

Scotus turned against the conceptual analogy of the concept of being analogy of being how she taught Thomas Aquin. He emphasized the absolute freedom of divine will to the finite created and dissolved the paradox of saying and unspeakability of God in favor of the latter. As Radical Orthodoxy, the consequence became a spoken word a truthless act of will.

Radical Orthodoxy sees this development, which came up and against in Paris in Paris in Paris analogy of being And to see the world without reference to God and God without reference to the world, as the beginning of modern tendency.

So far, the radical Orthodoxy has not been well received in German -speaking Europe ^[first] As in the English -speaking world, especially in Great Britain and parts of the United States. However, the STH Basel organized a specialist conference in 2014 ^[2] with John Milbank on the subject. A conference band emerged from this. The Austrian theologian Andreas G. Weiß has a detailed and profound discourse analysis of the Radical Orthodoxy in his dissertation The political space of theology submitted. His processing of the theological basic positions of John Milbank and Catherine Pickstock has received positive echo and is considered one of the most comprehensive representations of the radical orthodoxy in German -speaking countries. ^[3]

• John Milbank: The Word Made Strange . Blackwell, Oxford 1997, ISBN 0-631-20336-2.
• Catherine Pickstock: After Writing . Blackwell, Oxford 1997, ISBN 0-631-20672-8.
• John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock, Graham Ward (ed.): Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology . Routledge, London 1999, ISBN 0-415-19699-X.
• John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock: Truth in Aquinas . Routledge, London 2000, ISBN 0-415-23335-6.
• John Milbank: Being Reconciled . Routledge, London 2003, ISBN 0-415-30525-X.
• John Milbank: Theology and Social Theory . 2nd Edition. Blackwell, Oxford 2006, ISBN 1-4051-3684-7.
• Steven Shakespeare: Radical Orthodoxy: A Critical Introduction . SPCK, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-281-05837-2.
• Graham Ward: True Religion . Blackwell, Oxford 2003, ISBN 0-631-22173-5 (German: In search of the true religion [religious cultures 4], Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-17-020069-2).
• Sven Grosse / Harald Seubert (ed.): Radical Orthodoxy. A challenge for Christianity and theology after secularization , Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2017, ISBN 978-374-04859-5.
• Andreas G. Weiß: The political space of theology. Design of incarnation theological event theology in response to Radical Orthodoxy , Aschendorff, Münster 2019, ISBN 978-3-402-13425-2.

• John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock, Graham Ward (ed.): Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology . Routledge, London 1999, ISBN 0-415-19699-X.
• John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock: Truth in Aquinas . Routledge, London 2000, ISBN 0-415-23335-6.
• D. Stephen Long: Divine Economy: Theology and the Market . Routledge, London 2000, ISBN 0-415-22673-2.
• Graham Ward: Cities of God . Routledge, London 2000, ISBN 0-415-20256-6.
• Daniel M. Bell: Liberation Theology After the End of History: The Refusal to Cease Suffering . Routledge, London 2001, ISBN 0-415-24304-1.
• Conor Cunningham: Genealogy of Nihilism: Philosophies of Nothing & the Difference of Theology . Routledge, London 2002, ISBN 0-415-27694-2.
• James K. A. Smith: Speech and Theology: Language and the Logic of Incarnation . Routledge, London 2002, ISBN 0-415-27696-9.
• Michael Hanby: Augustine and Modernity . Routledge, London 2003, ISBN 0-415-28469-4.
• John Milban: Being Reconciled: Ontology and Pardon . Routledge, London 2003, ISBN 0-415-30525-X.
• Tracey Rowland: Culture and the Thomist Tradition: After Vatican II . Routledge, London 2003, ISBN 0-415-30527-6.
• Robert Miner: Truth in the Making: Knowledge and Creation in Modern Philosophy and Theology . Routledge, London 2003, ISBN 0-415-27698-5.
• Simon Oliver: Philosophy, God and Motion . Routledge, London 2005, ISBN 0-415-36045-5.

1. ↑ Patrick Becker: Beyond fundamentalism and arbitrariness: to a Christian understanding of truth in (post) modern society . Herder, 2017, ISBN 978-3-451-81659-8, S. 265 .
2. ↑ STH Basel: Radical Orthodoxy. Accessed on July 24, 2018 .
3. ↑ Patrick Becker: Weiß, Andreas G.: The political space of theology. Design of incarnation theological event theology in response to Radical Orthodoxy . In: Theological review . Band 116 , 20. July 2020, ISSN 2699-5433 , doi: 10.17879/NHV-2020-2839 ( uni-muenster.de [accessed on October 19, 2020]).