ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on a conference held at Heythrop College in June 1999, at which all three editors of Radical Orthodoxy generously entered into dispute with one Anglican and four Roman Catholic theologians. Although Cambridge is the birthplace of Radical Orthodoxy, the conference which was pretext for the book took place on Heythrop's site in London. The voice that is well featured by Oliver Davies and Fergus Kerr demonstrates its historical perspicacity and understanding of European Catholic scholarship. Radical Orthodoxy has performed an important service, in being part of the movement to return philosophical thought to its proper place in theology. The adoption of a style can be the exteriorisation of self-reflexion, or rather Radical Orthodoxy's self-reflexivity appears absent only because it is inscribed as the perceptible surface of the metaphysical vision it projects. The style of Radical Orthodoxy also explains its ecclesiology.
