Truth as a "living bond": a dialectical response to recent rhetorical theology
In recent years, the Radical Orthodoxy movement (especially John Milbank) has developed an influential theological response to the putative nihilism inherent in modern philosophical tendencies to construe the relation between finite and infinite realities as utterly disjunctive and thus incapable of...
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| Language: | English |
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Blackwell
2008
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International journal of systematic theology
Year: 2008, Volume: 10, Issue: 4, Pages: 431-446 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Radical orthodoxy
/ Kierkegaard, Søren 1813-1855
/ Girard, René 1923-2015
/ Dialectics
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| IxTheo Classification: | NAA Systematic theology |
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| Summary: | In recent years, the Radical Orthodoxy movement (especially John Milbank) has developed an influential theological response to the putative nihilism inherent in modern philosophical tendencies to construe the relation between finite and infinite realities as utterly disjunctive and thus incapable of mediation. This response, which generally implies the championing of a "participatory" ontology, has been very hostile to Protestant or "dialectical" theology, whose insistence upon an "indirect" rather than a "rhetorical" form of truth is taken to implicate such theology in the nihilism of a "univocal" ontology. In this article I offer another reading of the dialectical, via Søren Kierkegaard and René Girard, according to which its anti-objectivism is due not to the inheritance of modern epistemological dilemmas but to a quite biblical existential rigor. I argue, contrary to Milbank, that this rigor is not finally gnostic, but instead that it alone can preserve the form of truth as a living, spiritual form. |
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| ISSN: | 1463-1652 |
| Contains: | In: International journal of systematic theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2400.2008.00353.x |