1st Edition

Aquinas and Radical Orthodoxy A Critical Inquiry

By Paul DeHart Copyright 2012
270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

Aquinas and Radical Orthodoxy investigates the encounter of the most vibrant and controversial trend in recent theology with the greatest Christian thinker of the Middle Ages. The book describes Radical Orthodoxy’s orientation and highlights those anti-secular strategies and intellectual influences that have shaped its appeal to Aquinas. It surveys the emergence of the particular picture of... Read more

Preface  1. Radical Orthodoxy: A Genealogy of a Genealogy  2. Aquinas among the Radically Orthodox: Investigations, Invocations, Altercations  Part I. On Being Heard But Not Seen  3. Clashes at Cambridge: The Dispute with Nicholas Lash and the Emergence of Milbank’s Aquinas  4. Language or Ontology? Milbank’s Aquinas and the Nature of Analogy  5. Revelation’s ‘Evacuation’ of Metaphysics (I): First Philosophy as Ersatz Theology  6. Revelation’s ‘Evacuation’ of Metaphysics (II): The Truncated Object of First Philosophy  Part II. On Seeing Only What One Wants to See  7. "Token Bumpkinhood" (I): Pickstock, Aquinas, and the Creative Dimension of Knowledge  8. "Token Bumpkinhood" (II): Pickstock, Aquinas, and the Truth in the Divine Ideas  9. The Creature as the Creator’s Unveiling: Aquinas as Phenomenologist According To Milbank  10. Knowing God’s Essence: Does ‘No’ Mean ‘No’?  11. Why all Knowledge is Supernatural: Milbank’s Aquinas, Aristotle, and the Demotion of Substance  12. Divine Revelation and Human Performance: Milbank’s Aquinas on the Trinity  13. Conclusion.  Notes.  Index

Biography

Paul J. DeHart is Associate Professor of Theology at Vanderbilt University. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, he studied theology at Yale University and the University of Chicago, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1997. His previous books are Beyond the Necessary God (1999) and The Trial of the Witnesses (2006).