from Part II - Movements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2022
The theological movement known as Radical Orthodoxy arose in the late 1990s as a small group of University lecturers and research students who met for seminars, to discuss papers responding to various cultural and philosophico-theological circumstances. What began as a small discussion group gradually expanded into a variegated network of scholars whose views were not always aligned with one another but who shared a commitment to exploring the value of pre-modern metaphysics in problematising contemporary philosophical and theological questions. The movement is not a singular edifice comprising individuals of the same opinion in all matters but has been described as a theological idiolect or style of approach, constructive and critical at once. In what follows, I will outline the cultural and theological context in which the movement arose and then enumerate the central characteristics of a ‘radically orthodox’ approach, insofar as that may be singularly identified, before suggesting areas for future development.
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