{"id":7944,"date":"2013-01-18T14:03:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T20:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tonyjones\/?p=7944"},"modified":"2015-03-13T16:45:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T21:45:47","slug":"radical-orthodoxy-binaries-and-nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tonyjones\/2013\/01\/18\/radical-orthodoxy-binaries-and-nostalgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Radical Orthodoxy: Binaries and Nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Bo Sanders<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Big Daddy Bo takes Radical Orthodoxy<\/a> \u2014 a theological movement of which I am not fond \u2014 down to size:<\/p>\n

It does not take long, when listening to John Milbank, to discover the fatal flaw.<\/p>\n

Milbank says \u201cThe only choice in our time is between religion and nihilism\u201d.<\/p>\n

Into a plural, multiple, diverse 21st century, RO comes marching in with a old-school binary!<\/strong>\u00a0 From sentence one, as a listener, you start thinking \u201cyeah, that thing you said might be true \u2026 IF there is only an either-or option. But if there are layers, any nuance, multiple factors, complexity or any number of other variations \u2026 then your argument breaks down pretty quickly. Your proposal only stands up IF your initial simplistic framing of the issue is adopted. \u201d [like when Milbank calls all of post-modernism a footnote to Nietzsche]<\/p>\n

When Milbank says that a purely secular society is untenable\u2026 it\u2019s a no-brainer! Of course that would be true. Duh. Only \u2026 that\u2019s not exactly the reality we are dealing with.<\/p>\n

Of course, the sentence takes on wholly new meaning inside RO\u2019s binary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest:\u00a0Radical Orthodoxy\u2019s Fatal Flaw<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Big Daddy Bo takes Radical Orthodoxy \u2014 a theological movement of which I am not fond \u2014 down to size: It does not take long, when listening to John Milbank, to discover the fatal flaw. Milbank says \u201cThe only choice in our time is between religion and nihilism\u201d. 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