ABSTRACT
Given the number of Catholic contributors to the book, Radical Orthodoxy, it is not possible for any Catholic response to come from a wholly external standpoint. It is not difficult to identify other groupings in Britain with quite different sets of interests, who might find Radical Orthodoxy profoundly alien and uncongenial. There are two centrally important discussions of Luther Radical Orthodoxy. The first, by John Montag, explores the highly influential though little studied work of Francisco Suarez. The second is John Milbank's own attempt to renew theological interest in Lutheran thinkers like Hamann and Jacobi. Every theological programme includes a reading of previous theological work, necessarily selective, and may thus be disputable at various points. Many Catholic theologians in the Cajetanian tradition of Thomism especially, found it hard to accept Henri de Lubac's reinterpretation of Aquinas as a theologian in the line of the patristic tradition. Among Roman Catholics away from Aquinas and Augustine, there is a deep split.
