Hardly the Last Word

Alright, it’s time to return to what brings readers to this blog–MICAH PICTURES! These span from Easter weekend to this morning. Hence the name.

Those last Radical Orthodoxy summaries might or might not come soon. Along with Jeff and Robert from the Ooze, I’m now working my way through Radical Orthodoxy and the Reformed Tradition, and the debate is wonderful. Given the utter confidence with which Milbank and company plow through their books, it’s nice to read some theology [...]

Alright, so here are some comments on the rest of the Radical Orthodoxy essays. “Wittgenstein after Theology” by Conor Cunningham Cunningham’s basic upshot is that, despite Wittgenstein’s reputation and his own insistence that he operates outside of metaphysical debates, he defaults to a Kantian-style immanentism, claiming agnosticism about “things in themselves.” The problem with that [...]

I’ve finished Radical Orthodoxy and should write synopses of some of the major essays tomorrow. Now I’m about a quarter of the way into Milbank’s The Word Made Strange, which I hope to finish before Mary gets done with her school year–it’s a book that takes some solitude and some time to read. Right now [...]

“The False Legacy of Suarez” by John Montag, the second essay in Radical Orthodoxy, sets out to clarify some of the changes in theological language that have happened inside those traditions called “Thomism.” As the early modern era dawns, writes Montag, the medieval notion of revelation as something akin to light–something that illuminates for the [...]

Actually understanding a Milbank essay is a nice experience. I just had such an experience. I’m reading Radical Orthodoxy for my comprehensive exams, and after a semester back in the philosophic saddle, I’m back to the point where I can understand what Milbank is writing when he writes “The Theological Critique of Philosophy in Hamann [...]

Huzzah! I woke up at 4:00 this morning for perfectly natural reasons, and when I’d finished being perfectly natural, I discovered that I was fully awake. So, rather than putting off until tomorrow the tabulation of my semester grades, I decided to put finishing touches on my last paper AND knock my grades and end-of-semester [...]

Just seeing if Blogger will take thorns. This is Caedmon’s Hymn, BTW. Nu sculon herigean heofonrices weard, meotodes meahte and his modge?anc, weorc wuldorf?der, swa he wundra gehw?s, ece drihten, or onstealde. He ?rest sceop eor?an bearnum heofon to hrofe, halig scyppend; ?a middangeard moncynnes weard, ece drihten, ?fter teode firum foldan, frea ?lmihtig.