Questions also are raised about the identity
of the church that plays such a major role in the
Radical Orthodox account
of history, about whether there is a
doctrine of providence implicit in it, about the dismissal or ignoring
of Protestantism, about the role
of Jesus in its Christianity, about the role
of Socrates in its Platonism, about its failure to engage with the challenge
of modern scientific and technological
developments, about how other faith traditions are related to this version
of faith, and about whether this is a habitable orthodoxy for ordinary life.
So the evolution
of the Church's understanding
of the gospel over the centuries is not a matter
of «paradigm shifts,» or ruptures, or
radical breaks and new beginnings; it's a question
of what theologians call the
development of doctrine.