Radical Orthodoxy

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Radical Orthodoxy is a Christian - theological movement of theologians from different denominations are attributed. It was founded by John Milbank . Its starting point can be seen 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 , ed. v. John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock and Graham Ward (Routledge 1999).

The name emphasizes the movement's close relationship with traditional church teaching. “Radical” (Latin radix , “root”), “Orthodoxy” (Greek ορθός orthós “correct, straightforward” and δόξα dóxa “teaching”, “( God ) worship”, ie orthodoxy ).

Guiding principle

Radical Orthodoxy is a critique of secularism and Kantian metaphysics . She turns against a resignation of Christianity with regard to the truth ability of language and brings politics, ethics, cultural studies, art, natural science and philosophy into a conversation with theology.

Influences

Important modern influences are Henri de Lubac's ontology , Hans Urs von Balthasar's theological aesthetics and Karl Barth's criticism of liberalism, as well as the close relationship of the Oxford movement with the Catholic Church and the Platonic philosophy of the Cambridge Platonists . Important classical sources are Augustine , Thomas Aquinas , Nikolaus von Kues and Meister Eckhart .

Theory of Modernism and Johannes Duns Scotus

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

Scotus turned against the conceptual analogy of the concept of being analogia entis , as taught by Thomas Aquinas. He emphasized the absolute freedom of the divine will vis-à-vis the finite created and resolved the paradox of sayability and unspeakability of God in favor of the latter. As a consequence, according to Radical Orthodoxy, every word spoken thus became an act of will without truth.

Radical Orthodoxy sees this development, which arose in Paris in the 13th century with Scotus and argued against analogia entis and for univocality , as the beginning of the modern tendency to see the world without reference to God and God without reference to the world.

Reception in German-speaking countries

The Radical Orthodoxy has so far not been as popular in German-speaking Europe as it is in Britain. However, in 2014 the STH Basel organized a symposium with John Milbank on the subject. A conference proceedings emerged from this.

literature

  • 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 (Eds.): 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 0631221735 (German: In search of the true religion [ReligionsKulturen 4], Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-17-020069-2 ).
  • Sven Grosse / Harald Seubert (eds.): Radical Orthodoxy. A challenge for Christianity and theology after secularization , Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2017, ISBN 978-3-374-04859-5 .

Apparitions in the series "Radical Orthodoxy"

  • John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock, Graham Ward (Eds.): 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 KA 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 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Patrick Becker: Beyond Fundamentalism and Arbitrariness: Towards a Christian Understanding of Truth in (Post-) Modern Society . Herder, 2017, ISBN 978-3-451-81659-8 , pp. 265 .
  2. ^ STH Basel: Radical Orthodoxy. Retrieved July 24, 2018 .