Do you see any significant parallels between Radical Orthodoxy and the Tractarians of the last century?
The three of us are certainly heirs of both the Anglican High Church and Oxford Movement traditions, and we see Radical Orthodoxy as an attempt to reinvigorate Anglo-Catholic thought, although in alliance with many Roman Catholics. Many of the themes of our work are in continuity with earlier trends in Anglo-Catholic theology. Sacramentalism, for example, and incarnationalism, an interest in Platonism, an insistence that salvation consists in belonging to the Church conceived of as the true society, and a commitment to socialist politics. Socialist? Do you mean you are against private property, or just against a globalized free market? Socialists, with a few exceptions, have never been against all private property. Rather, they have been concerned to link ownership to entitlement in terms of responsible use for the public good, and they do not think that public interests should be entirely in private hands. So by “socialism” I mean something like opposition to economic exchange organiz
