Postmodernity as Opportunity for Church

"Milbank suggests that there is an 'inevitable, if wary, affinity, which must exist between Christianity and postmodernity' (BR, 196). This affinity is neither an identification of the two nor an accommodation of one to the other but rather the discernment of an opportunity afforded by the contemporary situation. Postmodernity's critique of modern epistemologies may represent a chink in modernity's armor that provides both an opportunity to launch an internal critique of modernity and occasion for the church to be alerted to its complicity with modernity."


James K.A. Smith, Introducing Radical Orthodoxy, p. 141