By Christoph Schneider, Adrian Pabst
This ebook offers the 1st debate among the Anglo-Catholic flow Radical Orthodoxy and jap Orthodox theologians. prime foreign students supply new insights and reflections on a variety of modern concerns from a in particular theological and philosophical standpoint. the traditional idea of divine knowledge (Sophia) serves as a typical element of reference during this stumble upon. either Radical and jap Orthodoxy agree that the transfiguration of the realm in the course of the notice is on the very centre of the Christian religion. The e-book explores how this technique of transformation should be envisaged in regards to epistemological, ontological, aesthetical, ecclesiological and political questions. participants to this quantity contain Rowan Williams, John Milbank, Antoine Arjakovsky, Michael Northcott, Nicholas Loudovikos, Andrew Louth and Catherine Pickstock.
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The ‘metaphysics’ that is saved in the recent piece is the perennial ‘realism’ that stretched from Plato to Aquinas and was later reworked by Meister Eckhart and Nicolas of Cusa. H ere, characteristically, being is not a transcendental framework that includes even the divine; rather being and God are identified as the transcendent source in which all else participates. Moreover, as already indicated in the preface to Being Reconciled, John Milbank’s growing interest in Eastern Orthodoxy has led him to develop his account of ontology in the direction of a metaphysical-theological methexis of donation which draws on the Eastern O rthodox thematic of energy (energeia) and wisdom (sophia).
In this, the ‘radical orthodox’ movement could learn from O rthodox social teaching which is in some respects more radical than R oman Catholic social teaching, for example on the limits of the western secular human rights discourse and the critique of moral relativism. A necessary extension of the ecumenical theology that Radical Orthodoxy seeks to develop and promote is to highlight the convergence of social teaching in the C atholic, O rthodox and Anglican traditions as well as to show how Christian accounts of the person, society and the economy not only outwits both liberalism and Marxism but also actualizes the ideals of freedom, prosperity, solidarity and equality.