On modern sublimity: the challenge of Radical Orthodoxy

The recent emergence of Cambridge Radical Orthodoxy, associated with John Milbank, Phillip Blond, Catherine Pickstock, and others, has injected a new vitality into theological thinking.1 Radical Orthodoxy reads continental philosophy with sophistication, and attempts to fashion a constructive postmodern theology out of an encounter with thinkers such as Derrida, Deleuze, and Heidegger. Unfortunately, despite an incredible breadth and subtlety, as well as rhetorical suggestiveness, Radical Orthodoxy totalizes both philosophy and theology.