He was perhaps even more alarmed by the popularity of Latin American Liberation Theology, with its emphasis on contextual praxis and critiques of traditional theology from “the underside.”3 In such approaches to the study of the church, Milbank and others have worried that theology was losing its sense that to speak theologically of the church was to speak of God. Rather than investigating the church’s origin in the movement and work of the divine, ecclesiology was simply describing particular measurable phenomena found within contemporary communities who happen to call themselves “Christian.”
