Re: [asa] Random and design

For those of us not qualified to join Mensa, what does this mean? And would anybody south or west of Boston care?

"Christian theology counters the Nietzschean nihilism of foundational violence (in the language Radical Orthodoxy borrows from postmodernism) by advancing a participatory framework, an analogical poetics, a semiosis of peace, a metanarrative that does not require the postulate of original violence. Put more simply, Radical Orthodoxy hopes to recover Neoplatonic metaphysics as an explanation for the glue that holds the world together. Something can be what it is-a unit of semantic identity or meaning, a person, a social practice-and at the same time depend upon and reach toward something else. Or more strongly, something is real only in and through this constitutive dependence and fecundity. For the Neoplatonist, you, or I, or the value of my moral acts, or the meaning of this essay, are as emanating from and returning to the One."

Would anybody care to join "Neanderthal orhodoxy"? That's for us retards who are just dumb enough to think that when we read the Bible we actually understand what the writer intended to convey via comprehensible language. We could start a movement.

~Dick
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Janice Matchett
  To: David Opderbeck ; George Murphy
  Cc: Don Winterstein ; asa
  Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 12:06 AM
  Subject: Re: [asa] Random and design

  At 10:48 PM 11/23/2006, David Opderbeck wrote:

    George (and others), are you familiar with the Radical Orthodoxy movement? It seems to me that the way in which RO reappropriates Augustine and Aquinas is quite helpful.

  @ Yes. It's been around for several years. It does seem to be an interesting approach, and may eventually turn out to be helpful. Right now, I'm watching from a distance. :) R. R. Reno in First things gives a pretty good overview along with his opinion of it. ~ Janice

  The Radical Orthodoxy Project - R. R. Reno
  Copyright (c) 2000 First Things 100 (February 2000): 37-44.
  http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0002/articles/reno.html

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