"If you live today" wrote Flannery O'Connor, "you breathe in nihilism." Whether "religious" or "secular", it is "the very gas you breathe." Both within and without the academy, there is an air common to deconstruction and scientism, which both might be described as species of reductionism. The dominance of these modes...
I thank thee, Father… that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and understanding… But what are these things? What do the wise and understanding fail to see? It is perhaps not so much a matter of what they see, but of how. They want to see by means of...
RADICAL ORTHODOXY: THEOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS is an online, international, peer-reviewed journal focused on exploring Christianity in the modern world in a manner that is both attentive to Christianity's classic expressions and mindful of its far-reaching ramifications for all areas of modern life. The perspective of Radical Orthodoxy is that a...
For many of us, at least for some of the time, there is a deep connection between sin and insecurity. When we suffer the frustration of our expectations, when we feel something is missing from our lives, when things seem to be unfolding beyond our control and leaving us feeling...
RADICAL ORTHODOXY Radical Orthodoxy began with the view that what was to be salvaged from twentieth-century theology was mainly the contribution of the nouvelle théologie and above all the work of Henri de Lubac. Most modern theology since the seventeenth century had been captive to a false grace/nature, faith/reason dualism that...