Is orthodoxy radical? Revisiting G. K. Chesterton and John Robinson
That orthodoxy can be radical might be thought a rallying cry from the 1990s. But in fact it was already being made in the 1960s by John Robinson, and before him by G. K. Chesterton, at the start of the twentieth century. This tradition of radical orthodoxy – the idea that orthodoxy is both rooted a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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Theology
Year: 2023, Volume: 126, Issue: 6, Pages: 407-414 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KDF Orthodox Church NBP Sacramentology; sacraments |
| Further subjects: | B
Forgiveness
B Robinson B Chesterton B rootedness B Eucharist B Orthodoxy |
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| Summary: | That orthodoxy can be radical might be thought a rallying cry from the 1990s. But in fact it was already being made in the 1960s by John Robinson, and before him by G. K. Chesterton, at the start of the twentieth century. This tradition of radical orthodoxy – the idea that orthodoxy is both rooted and uprooting – is here recalled, and it is further argued that its possibility and practice are founded in the Eucharist, in the performed story of a body that is both human and divine. |
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| ISSN: | 2044-2696 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0040571X231209466 |