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Aquinas and Radical Orthodoxy

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Aquinas and Radical Orthodoxy

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A Critical Inquiry

Aquinas and Radical Orthodoxy

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Aquinas and Radical Orthodoxy book

A Critical Inquiry
ByPaul DeHart
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2011
eBook Published 11 November 2011
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203153055
Pages 254
eBook ISBN 9780203153055
Subjects Humanities
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DeHart, P. (2011). Aquinas and Radical Orthodoxy: A Critical Inquiry (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203153055

ABSTRACT

Aquinas and Radical Orthodoxy investigates the encounter of the most vibrant and controversial trend in recent theology with the greatest Christian thinker of the Middle Ages. The book describes Radical Orthodoxy’s orientation and highlights those anti-secular strategies and intellectual influences that have shaped its appeal to Aquinas. It surveys the emergence of the particular picture of Aquinas especially associated with the leaders of Radical Orthodoxy, John Milbank and his student Catherine Pickstock, along with the scholarly disputes which prompted and followed that development. The book then undertakes a detailed investigation of the pivotal publications on Aquinas of those two authors, laying out their difficult theories in clear language, carefully examining the texts of Aquinas to which they appeal, and challenging their interpretations on a number of fundamental points. Topics covered include: analogical language and knowledge of God, the role of metaphysics within theology, the relation of cognition to the divine archetypes of things, the possibility of human apprehension of God’s essence, the nature of substance, and speculation on the Trinity. The conclusion reflects on those elements suppressed by the Radical Orthodox reading of Aquinas, their constructive philosophical and theological possibilities, and the challenges they present to the Radical Orthodox project.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|14 pages

Radical Orthodoxy: A Genealogy of a Genealogy

chapter 2|20 pages

Aquinas among the Radically Orthodox: Investigations, Invocations, Altercations

part |2 pages

Part I: On Being Heard but Not Seen

chapter 3|12 pages

Clashes at Cambridge: The Dispute with Nicholas Lash and the Emergence of Milbank’s Aquinas

chapter 4|15 pages

Language or Ontology? Milbank’s Aquinas and the Nature of Analogy

chapter 5|15 pages

Revelation’s ‘Evacuation’ of Metaphysics (I): First Philosophy as Ersatz Theology

chapter 6|18 pages

Revelation’s ‘Evacuation’ of Metaphysics (II): The Truncated Object of First Philosophy

part |2 pages

Part II: On Seeing Only What One Wants to See

chapter 7|12 pages

“Token Bumpkinhood” (I): Pickstock, Aquinas and the Creative Dimension of Knowledge

chapter 8|18 pages

“Token Bumpkinhood” (II): Pickstock, Aquinas and the Truth in the Divine Ideas

chapter 9|14 pages

The Creature as the Creator’s Unveiling: Aquinas as Phenomenologist According to Milbank

chapter 10|11 pages

Knowing God’s Essence: Does ‘No’ Mean ‘No’?

chapter 11|13 pages

Why All Knowledge Is Supernatural: Milbank’s Aquinas, Aristotle and the Demotion of Substance

chapter 12|18 pages

Divine Revelation and Human Performance: Milbank’s Aquinas on the Trinity

chapter 13|18 pages

Conclusion

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