sentences:  His work is undertaken at the borderlands between philosophy, theology, ethics, aesthetics, science, and politics.Drawing from continental philosophy and informed by a long Augustinian tradition of theological cultural critique – from Augustine of Hippo and John Calvin to Jonathan Edwards and Abraham Kuyper – his interests are in bringing critical thought to bear on the practices of the church and the church's witness to culture, culminating in the need to interpret and understand what he has called "cultural liturgies".As a former proponent of radical orthodoxy, Smith's claim is that it is actually "theology" or, more specifically, the story told by the church that is capable of countering modernism.