I'm just finishing up the brand spanking new book by
James K.A. Smith callled
Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping A Post-secular Theology which I picked up 50% off at the Evangelical Theological Society metting in San Antonio two weeks ago. It was exactly the book I needed to get a handle on an important and exremetly intriguing movement in philosopical theology written in, shall we say, "forbidding" prose. I've had the
RO: A New Theology reader for going on three years and I've never made it past the introduction. Not to mention the copy of
Theology and Social Theory I picked up for that paper last Spring. But even more interestingly, Smith's book is also a constructive work in which he attempts to bring Reformed thought, a la Kuyper, Dooyeweerd, Olthuis, and even Hauerwas into dialogue with Millbank, Ward, and Pickstock (you know Dave, he barely even mentions Van Till, and I don't know enough to see if the rest of these Reformed thinkers fall to the same critique that he does, which you mentioned).
I could go on-and-on about this book, but I'm not really sure I know enough to comment on it beyond saying it has blurbs from Merold Westphal, Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Catherine Pickstock, and an introduction by Milbank, himself.
And speaking of younger evangelicals taking the world of continental philosophy and the
nouvelle théologie by storm, when can we expect to see your dissertation on amazon, Jeff?
