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twenty-five years ago, John Milbank inaugurated Radical Orthodoxy, one of the
most significant and influential theological movements of the last two decades.
In Milbank’s Theology and Social Theory, he constructed a sweeping theological
genealogy of the origins of modernity and the emergence of the secular,
counterposed by a robust retrieval of traditional orthodoxy as the critical
philosophical and theological mode of being in the postmodern world. That
genealogy turns upon a critical point—the work of John Duns Scotus as the
starting point of modernity and progenitor of a raft of philosophical and
theological ills that have prevailed since. Milbank’s account has been
disseminated proliferously through Radical Orthodoxy and even beyond and is
largely uncontested in contemporary theology. The present volume conducts a
comprehensive examination and critical analysis of Radical Orthodoxy’s use and
interpretation of John Duns Scotus. Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M. offers a
substantial challenge to the narrative of Radical Orthodoxy’s idiosyncratic
take on Scotus and his role in ushering in the philosophical age of the modern.
This volume not only corrects the received account of Scotus but opens a
constructive way forward toward a positive assessment and appropriation of
Scotus’s work for contemporary theology.
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About the author
Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M. is a Franciscan friar of Holy Name Province, is a columnist at America Magazine, and is currently completing a Ph.D. in systematic theology at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. He is the author of several books including Francis of Assisi and the Future of Faith: Exploring Franciscan Spirituality and Theology in the Modern World (2012), The Last Words of Jesus: A Meditation on Love and Suffering (2013), and The Franciscan Heart of Thomas Merton: A New Look at the Spiritual Influence of His Life, Thought, and Writings (2014). He is also the author of numerous scholarly articles in refereed journals including Theological Studies, The Heythrop Journal, New Blackfriars, Cistercian Studies Quarterly, The Downside Review, and Worship, among others. He has previously taught in the department of religious studies at Siena College and in the theology department of St. Bonaventure University. He lectures widely around North America and Europe and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the International Thomas Merton Society.
