Against Pure Faith and Pure Reason

"Thus, RO ‘protests equally against assertions of pure reason and of pure faith; equally against denominational claims for a monopoly of salvation and against indifference to church order; equally against theology as an internal autistic idiolect, and against theology as an adaptation to unquestioned secular assumptions …. However, it further asserts that the apparently opposite poles refused are in secret collusion: more specifically it contends that the pursuit of pure faith is as much a modern quest as the pursuit of pure reason; that the investing of salvific security entirely in institutions and formulae is as modern as the individualistic neglect of such matters, while the eschewing of all apologetics is likewise as modern as regarding apologetics as the essential foundation for a truthful theology.’ (Milbank, “Programme of Radical Orthodoxy,” 33.)"


James K.A. Smith, Introducing Radical Orthodoxy, p. 72