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1. The Possibility of Christian Philosophy

   Maurice Blondel at the Intersection of Theology and Philosophy

   By Adam C. English

   Series: Routledge Radical Orthodoxy

   This is the first to book to explore Blondel's entire body of work and provides an introduction to his life and writings and their relevance to the debates surrounding the radical orthodoxy identity. Detailing Blondel's impressive research output during the first half of the twentieth...

   Published April 16th 2012 by Routledge
2. Philosophy, God and Motion

   By Simon Oliver

   Series: Routledge Radical Orthodoxy

   In the post-Newtonian world motion is assumed to be a simple category which relates to the locomotion of bodies in space, and is usually associated only with physics. This book shows this to be a relatively recent understanding of motion and that prior to the scientific revolution motion...

   Published July 27th 2005 by Routledge
3. Truth in the Making

   Creative Knowledge in Theology and Philosophy

   By Robert C. Miner

   Series: Routledge Radical Orthodoxy

   Is knowing a purely passive reception of something concrete outside the mind, or when we know something, are we creating something too?Spanning more than 500 years of philosophical enquiry from the Middle Ages to the present day, Robert Miner clarifies modern philosophical conceptions of knowing as...

   Published September 17th 2003 by Routledge
4. Augustine and Modernity

   By Michael Hanby

   Series: Routledge Radical Orthodoxy

   Augustine and Modernity is a fresh and challenging addition to current debates about the Augustinian origins of modern subjectivity and the Christian genesis of Western nihilism. It firmly rejects the dominant modern view that the modern Cartesian subject, as an archetype of Western nihilism,...

   Published April 16th 2003 by Routledge
5. Culture and the Thomist Tradition

   After Vatican II

   By Tracey Rowland

   Series: Routledge Radical Orthodoxy

   Thomism's influence upon the development of Catholicism is difficult to overestimate - but how secure is its grip on the challenges that face contemporary society? Culture and the Thomist Tradition examines the crisis of Thomism today as thrown into relief by Vatican II, the twenty-first ecumenical...

   Published February 19th 2003 by Routledge
6. Being Reconciled

   Ontology and Pardon

   By John Milbank

   Series: Routledge Radical Orthodoxy

   Being Reconciled is a radical and entirely fresh theological treatment of the classic theory of the Gift in the context of divine reconciliation. It reconsiders notions of freedom and exchange in relation to a Christian doctrine which understands Creation, grace and incarnation as heavenly gifts,...

   Published February 12th 2003 by Routledge
7. Speech and Theology

   Language and the Logic of Incarnation

   By James K.A. Smith

   Series: Routledge Radical Orthodoxy

   God is infinite, but language finite; thus speech would seem to condemn Him to finitude. In speaking of God, would the theologian violate divine transcendence by reducing God to immanence, or choose, rather, to remain silent? At stake in this argument is a core problem of the conditions of divine...

   Published July 31st 2002 by Routledge
8. Genealogy of Nihilism

   By Conor Cunningham

   Series: Routledge Radical Orthodoxy

   This text re-reads Western history in the light of nihilistic logic, which pervades two millennia of Western thought. From Parmenides to Alain Badiou, via Plotinus, Avicenna, Duns Scotus, Ockham, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze and Derrida, a genealogy of...

   Published May 26th 2002 by Routledge
9. Liberation Theology after the End of History

   The refusal to cease suffering

   By Daniel Bell

   Series: Routledge Radical Orthodoxy

   Daniel Bell assesses the impact of Christian resistance to capitalism in Latin America, and the implications of theological debates that have emerged from this. He uses postmodern critical theory to investigate capitalism, its effect upon human desire and the Church's response to it, in a thorough...

   Published August 22nd 2001 by Routledge
10. Cities of God

    By Graham Ward

    Series: Routledge Radical Orthodoxy

    Cities of God traces urban culture of north America and Western Europe during the 1970s, to ask how theology can respond to the postmodern city. Since Harvey Cox published his famous theological response to urban living during the mid-1960s very little has been written to address this fundamental...

    Published November 8th 2000 by Routledge