Synopsis: Radical Orthodoxy, whose founding father is John Milbank,
claims that God has been pushed to the margins in modernity and
that a false and misleading neo-theology has taken hold that needs
to be revisited and contested. It is this return to the premodern
that often leads theologians to have reservations about Radical
Orthodoxy when they might otherwise have some sympathy for many of
its positions. Radical Orthodoxy, like most traditional theology,
claims that the power of God is in all creation and that God sits
everywhere for all to partake of. But there appears to be a failure
to see that the church and theology do not set in place systems
that live out this basic assumption. Liberation theology, while
sharing much of the same assumption that God is everywhere and to
be shared, at the same time engages in a critique of the structures
that claim to facilitate this vision, and finds them wanting. From
here, then, liberation theologians attempt to refigure our
understanding of shared power in order to broaden the vision, while
it may be argued that Radical Orthodoxy simply restates the
assumption with little political critique of the issues. Perhaps
this point explains why this book is titled The Poverty of Radical
Orthodoxy rather than Radical Error Endorsements: "These essays are
a philosophico-theological treasure trove, in telling against
Radical Orthodoxy's trenchant critique of modernity and its
Tertullianist exclusivism model of theological understanding. Their
incisive arguments expose shortcomings in RO's interpretation of a
range of reference points that include, for example, Hamman,
Kierkegaard, nominalism, liberation theology, feminist theology,
Hindu bhakti tradition, and pacifism. Well worth reading for
studies in philosophy of religion and theology." --Abrahim H. Khan
Professor and Advanced Degree Director Trinity College, University
of Toronto "For anyone interested in contemporary theology and
philosophy of religion this book will be exceedingly helpful. The
debate here with Radical Orthodoxy involves several kinds of
feminists, postmodernists, secularists, a variety of Christian
theologians, and even defenders of Scotus and Ockham." --David
Goicoechea Professor Emeritus Brock University Author Biography:
Lisa Isherwood is Professor of Feminist Liberation Theologies and
Director of the Institute for Theological Partnerships at the
University of Winchester, UK. She has authored or edited eighteen
books, including The Power of Erotic Celibacy: Queering
Heteropatriarchy (2006) and The Fat Jesus: Feminist Explorations in
Boundaries and Transgressions (2008). Marko Zlomisli is professor
of philosophy at Conestoga College, Institute of Advanced Learning
in Kitchener, Canada. He has authored and edited a number of books,
including Jacques Derrida's Aporetic Ethics (2007), The Sorrowful
Mysteries: A Postmodern Poetics (1998), Zarathustra's Joyful
Annunciations (1995). He is currently writing a manuscirpt
entitled, Crossing out the Crucifix.
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