ABSTRACT
Radical Orthodoxy is a determined stand against modernity. Like Augustine in his own day, Radical Orthodoxy aims to topple the household gods in defense of a unique and decisive Christian narrative of history. Indeed, insofar as it represents a coherent position, Radical Orthodoxy places Augustine at the center of its enterprise.1 Yet, at many crucial junctures, Radical Orthodoxy renders Augustine's thought almost unrecognizable or abandons it altogether. By neglecting the even-handedness of Augustine's analytical and descriptive method, Radical Orthodoxy loses its equilibrium and in so doing loses both its radical character and its orthodoxy. In failing to follow Augustine's thought to its logical conclusions, Radical Orthodoxy loses its nerve. As an assault on modernity, Radical Orthodoxy goes both too far and not far enough, and so remains irrevocably implicated in the modernity it tries to overthrow.
