"SCM Veritas" engages in critical and original questions of pressing concern to both philosophers and theologians. The major concern of all books in this series is to display a rigorous theological critique of categories not often thought to be theological in character, such as phenomenology or metaphysics which are mainly considered as philosophical categories. All the books in this series aim to illustrate that without theology something essential is lost in our accounts of such categories - not only in the abstract but in the way in which we inhabit the world. Karl Barth is doubtless one of the most important and influential theologians of the 20th century. The Radical Orthodoxy movement has made major contributions to the debate about the return to metaphysics in Christian theology and philosophy. In this groundbreaking book which challenges much of what is regarded as 'orthodoxy' in Barthian circles, Timothy Stanley seeks to make a distinctly Protestant contribution to this debate.