RGacky3
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I've been Reading a little about this relatively New theological movement.
It's more or less the idea started by John Milbank and is the idea that theology should be the primary discipline though which the rest of the world is seen, i.e. it's not theology and then seperately economics or sociology or whatever, it's first theology and then economics and sociology and so on as disciplines subservient to theology.
It's also the idea that Orthodox Christianity has very radical implications, specifically in the modern context of the modern/liberal/market secular orthodoxy, and that taking orthodox christianity seriously has real world political implications.
It goes against the liberal theology that reads theology within the context of modern liberalism submits theology to that.
Out of radical orthodoxy (in the UK), you get the very interesting "red tory" movement, a political movement taking conservatism and seperating it from the market-fundementalism that has taken it over since the 1980s and once again taking the social-justice Message of Christianity seriously, but falling into the liberal trap of mixing social-justice with modern liberalism, the same way unfortunately conservatism has falling into the trap of adopting a neo-liberal market fundementalism.
Now that's just one (and for me one of the most interesting) implications of the Radical Orthodoxy.
Another is the rejection of critiquing religion from the standpoint of the secular Sciences when those Sciences presuppose naturalism, when you understand that theology (be it Christian, or naturalistic) cannot be seperated from everything else you see that critiquing religion from a naturalistic standpoint is like critiquing a german poem using an English grammer book ... I just doesn't work.
It's more or less the idea started by John Milbank and is the idea that theology should be the primary discipline though which the rest of the world is seen, i.e. it's not theology and then seperately economics or sociology or whatever, it's first theology and then economics and sociology and so on as disciplines subservient to theology.
It's also the idea that Orthodox Christianity has very radical implications, specifically in the modern context of the modern/liberal/market secular orthodoxy, and that taking orthodox christianity seriously has real world political implications.
It goes against the liberal theology that reads theology within the context of modern liberalism submits theology to that.
Out of radical orthodoxy (in the UK), you get the very interesting "red tory" movement, a political movement taking conservatism and seperating it from the market-fundementalism that has taken it over since the 1980s and once again taking the social-justice Message of Christianity seriously, but falling into the liberal trap of mixing social-justice with modern liberalism, the same way unfortunately conservatism has falling into the trap of adopting a neo-liberal market fundementalism.
Now that's just one (and for me one of the most interesting) implications of the Radical Orthodoxy.
Another is the rejection of critiquing religion from the standpoint of the secular Sciences when those Sciences presuppose naturalism, when you understand that theology (be it Christian, or naturalistic) cannot be seperated from everything else you see that critiquing religion from a naturalistic standpoint is like critiquing a german poem using an English grammer book ... I just doesn't work.