Is orthodoxy radical? Revisiting G. K. Chesterton and John Robinson

Loughlin, Gerard

Abstract

That orthodoxy can be radical might be thought a rallying cry from the 1990s. But in fact it was already being made in the 1960s by John Robinson, and before him by G. K. Chesterton, at the start of the twentieth century. This tradition of radical orthodoxy – the idea that orthodoxy is both rooted and uprooting – is here recalled, and it is further argued that its possibility and practice are founded in the Eucharist, in the performed story of a body that is both human and divine.

Citation

Loughlin, G. (2023). Is orthodoxy radical? Revisiting G. K. Chesterton and John Robinson. Theology, 126(6), 407-414. https://doi.org/10.1177/0040571x231209466

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Aug 21, 2023
• Online Publication Date: Nov 11, 2023
• Publication Date: 2023-11
• Deposit Date: Nov 20, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 20, 2023
• Journal: Theology
• Print ISSN: 0040-571X
• Electronic ISSN: 2044-2696
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 126
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 407-414
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0040571x231209466
• Keywords: Eucharist, Chesterton, Robinson, rootedness, forgiveness, orthodoxy
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1932627