John Milbank

John Milbank
Milbank in October 2014
Born	Alasdair John Milbank (1952-10-23) 23 October 1952 (age 73) Kings Langley, England
Spouse	Alison Milbank ​ (m. 1978)​
Children	Sebastian Milbank
Academic background
Alma mater	The Queen's College, Oxford Westcott House, Cambridge University of Birmingham
Thesis	The Priority of the Made (1986)
Doctoral advisor	Leon Pompa
Influences	Thomas Aquinas [1] Augustine of Hippo [2] Hans Urs von Balthasar [3] Cambridge Platonists [4] V. A. Demant [5] Meister Eckhart [6] Neville Figgis [7] [8] George Grant [9] Gregory of Nyssa [1] Johann Georg Hamann Richard Hooker [4] Henri de Lubac [10] Nicholas of Cusa [1] Plato [11] Rowan Williams [12] Gillian Rose

Theology and Social Theory is generally viewed as having brought about a paradigm shift in Anglo-Saxon theology towards a much more confidently Christian approach. While it was initially seen as extreme, this perception has faded over the years and Milbank's global influence has continued to increase.

See also

• Theurgy

Bibliography

Books

• Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason , 1990 – ( ISBN   0-631-18948-3)
• The Religious Dimension in the Thought of Giambattista Vico, 1668–1744, 2 vols., 1991–92 – ( ISBN   0-7734-9694-7 [pt. 1], ISBN   0-7734-9215-1 [pt. 2])
• The Mercurial Wood: Sites, Tales, Qualities, 1997 – ( ISBN   3-7052-0113-1)
• The Word Made Strange, 1997 – ( ISBN   0-631-20336-2)
• Truth in Aquinas, with Catherine Pickstock, 2000 – ( ISBN   0-415-23335-6)
• Being Reconciled: Ontology and Pardon, 2003 – ( ISBN   0-415-30525-X)
• Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping a Post-Secular Theology, Jan. 2004, Baker Publishing Group - ISBN   978-0-8010-2735-2

• The Suspended Middle: Henri de Lubac and the Debate Concerning the Supernatural, 2005 – ( ISBN   0-8028-2899-X)
• The Legend of Death: Two Poetic Sequences, 2008 – ( ISBN   978-1-55635-915-6)
• The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic?, With Slavoj Žižek and Creston Davis, 2009 – ( ISBN   978-0-262-01271-3)
• Veritas: Proposing Theology. S C M Press, Limited, 2009. ISBN   978-0-334-04159-7

• The Future of Love: Essays in Political Theology, 2009 – ( ISBN   978-1-60608-162-4)
• Paul's New Moment: Continental Philosophy and the Future of Christian Theology, With Slavoj Žižek and Creston Davis, 2010 – ( ISBN   978-1-58743-227-9)
• Beyond Secular Order: The Representation of Being and the Representation of the People, 2013 – ( ISBN   978-1-118-82529-7)
• The Dances of Albion: A Poetic Topography, Shearsman Books, 2015. ISBN   978-1-84861-395-9

• The Politics of Virtue: Post-Liberalism and the Human Future, With Adrian Pabst, 2016 – ( ISBN   978-1-78348-649-6)
• Philosophy: A Theological Critique, Feb. 2023 Wiley–Blackwell. ISBN   978-1-4051-8239-3
• The Gift Exchanged: The Gift in Religion. Wiley–Blackwell Jun. 2017 ISBN   978-1-4051-5484-0
• Some Speaking Swirls: July 2023, Shearsman Books, ISBN   978-1-84861-893-0

Essays in edited volumes

• "Postmodern Critical Augustinianism: A Short Summa in Forty-two Responses to Unasked Questions", found in The Postmodern God: A Theological Reader, edited by Graham Ward, 1997 – ( ISBN   0-631-20141-6)
• "The Last of the Last: Theology in the Church", found in Conflicting Allegiances: The Church-Based University in a Liberal Democratic Society, 2004 – ( ISBN   1-58743-063-0)
• "Alternative Protestantism: Radical Orthodoxy and the Reformed Tradition", found in Radical Orthodoxy and the Reformed Tradition: Creation, Covenant, And Participation, 2005 – ( ISBN   0-8010-2756-X)
• "Plato versus Levinas: Gift, Relation and Participation", found in Adam Lipszyc, ed., Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy, Theology, Politics (Warsaw: Adam Mickiewicz Institute, 2006), 130–144.
• "Sophiology and Theurgy: The New Theological Horizon", found in Adrian Pabst, ed., Radical Orthodoxy and Eastern Orthodoxy (Basingstoke: Ashgate, 2009), 45–85 – ( ISBN   978-0-7546-6091-0)
• "Shari'a and the True Basis of Group Rights: Islam, the West, and Liberalism", found in Shari'a in the West, edited by Rex Ahdar and Nicholas Aroney, 2010 – ( ISBN   978-0-19-958291-4)
• "Platonism and Christianity: East and West", found in Daniel Haynes, ed., New Perspectives on Maximus (forthcoming)

Journal articles

• "The Body by Love Possessed: Christianity and Late Capitalism in Britain", Modern Theology 3, no. 1 (October 1986): 35–65.
• "Enclaves, or Where is the Church?", New Blackfriars, Vol. 73, no. 861 (June,1992), pp. 341–352.
• "Can a Gift Be Given? Prolegomena to a Future Trinitarian Metaphysic", Modern Theology 11, no. 1 (January 1995): 119–161.
• "The Soul of Reciprocity Part One: Reciprocity Refused", Modern Theology 17, no. 3 (July 2001): 335–391.
• "The Soul of Reciprocity Part Two: Reciprocity Granted", Modern Theology 17, no. 4 (October 2001): 485–507.
• "Scholasticism, Modernism and Modernity", Modern Theology 22, no. 4 (October 2006): 651–671.
• "From Sovereignty to Gift: Augustine's Critique of Interiority", Polygraph 19 no. 20 (2008): 177–199.
• "The New Divide: Romantic versus Classical Orthodoxy Modern Theology", Modern Theology 26, no. 1 (January 2010): 26–38.
• "Culture and Justice", Theory, Culture and Society 27, no. 6 (2010): 107–124.
• "On 'Thomistic Kabbalah'", Modern Theology 27, no. 1 (2011): 147–185.
• Milbank, John (January 2011). "On "Thomistic Kabbalah"" . Modern Theology. 27 (1): 147–185. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0025.2010.01659.x.
• "Hume Versus Kant: Faith, Reason and Feeling", Modern Theology 27, no. 2 (April 2011): 276–297.
• "Against Human Rights: Liberty in the Western Tradition", Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 1, no. 1 (2012): 203–234.
• "Dignity Rather than Right", Revista de filosofía Open Insight, v. IV, no. 7 (January 2014): 77-124.
• "Politics of the Soul", Revista de filosofía Open Insight, v. VI, no. 9 (January–June 2015): 91-108.
• "Reformation 500: Any Cause for Celebration?", "Open Theology" v. 4 (2018): 607–729. Open Access. DOI: Reformation 500: Any Cause for Celebration?
• "Officially Sanctioned Catholic Kabbalah? | Church Life Journal | University of Notre Dame". churchlifejournal.nd.edu. 7 August 2019. Archived from the original on 25 January 2022. Retrieved 2 October 2022.

References

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2. Doerksen, Paul G. (2000). "For and Against Milbank: A Critical Discussion of John Milbank's Construal of Ontological Peace" (PDF). The Conrad Grebel Review. 18 (1): 50. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 February 2018. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
3. Long, D. Stephen (2000). Divine Economy: Theology and the Market . Radical Orthodoxy. London: Routledge. p.  251. ISBN   978-1-134-58888-6.
4. Eugenio, Dick O. (2014). Communion with the Triune God: The Trinitarian Soteriology of T. F. Torrance. Princeton Theological Monograph Series. Vol. 204. Eugene, Oregon: Penwick Publications. p. 177. ISBN   978-1-62564-036-9.
5. Jobling, J'annine; Markham, Ian S., eds. (2000). Theological Liberalism: Creative and Critical. London: SPCK. p. 4. ISBN   978-0-281-05361-2.
6. Lyons, Nathan Edward (2014). Being Is Double: Jean-Luc Marion and John Milbank on God, Being and Analogy (PDF) (MPhil thesis). Australian Catholic University. p. i. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
7. Gay, Doug (2013). Honey from the Lion: Christian Theology and the Ethics of Nationalism. London: SCM Press. p. 60. ISBN   978-0-334-04647-9.
8. Moseley, Carys (2013). Nationhood, Providence, and Witness: Israel in Protestant Theology and Social Theory. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books. p. 4. ISBN   978-1-62189-676-0.
9. Fawcett, Brett (28 October 2021). "The Canadian Socrates: Analyzing George Grant's Theopolitical Project". The Canadian Journal for Scholarship and the Christian Faith. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
10. Bushlack, Thomas J. (2015). Politics for a Pilgrim Church: A Thomistic Theory of Civic Virtue. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 130. ISBN   978-0-8028-7090-2.
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12. Richardson, Graeme (2003). "Integrity and Realism: Assessing John Milbank's Theology". New Blackfriars. 84 (988): 268–280. doi:10.1111/j.1741-2005.2003.tb06299.x. ISSN   1741-2005. JSTOR   43250725.
13. Caputo, John D. (2009). "Review of The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic?, by Slavoj Žižek and John Milbank". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. ISSN   1538-1617 . Retrieved 23 August 2020.
14. Nicholas, Kyle (22 October 2015). "The Progress and Future of Radical Orthodoxy". TELOSscope. Candor, New York: Telos Press Publishing. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
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16. Kettle, Martin (15 September 2016). "Brexit was a revolt against liberalism. We've entered a new political era". The Guardian . ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2 March 2023. But it is striking that this week saw the publication of a book by John Milbank and Adrian Pabst, which takes post-liberalism as an established reality and as the starting point for the examination of a new kind of politics based on a vision of social and personal virtue and what the authors dub conservative socialism.
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34. Date of birth information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding Library of Congress Linked Data Service :  linked authority record n89670485 . Retrieved on 14 February 2018.
35. "Department of Theology and Religious Studies - The University of Nottingham". www.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
36. "Milbank, Prof. (Alasdair) John" . Who's Who 2017. Oxford University Press. November 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
37. Williams, Rowan (1995) [1994]. A Ray of Darkness. Lanham, Maryland: Cowley Publications. p. 199. ISBN   978-1-4616-6072-9.
38. "Interview: Alison Milbank, theologian". www.churchtimes.co.uk. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
39. "Nietzsche, Putin and the spirit of Russia | John Milbank » IAI TV". 27 September 2022. Archived from the original on 8 December 2022.
40. "Stanton Lectures". Cambridge University. Archived from the original on 19 April 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
41. "'You Are Gods' with David Bentley Hart and John Milbank". University of Notre Dame Press. 16 November 2021. Retrieved 16 November 2021.

External links

• Interview with John Milbank, 2005
• Interview with John Milbank, 2008
• "The Ethics of Self-Sacrifice" article in First Things (1999)
• Staff profile on the University of Nottingham website
• The Centre of Theology and Philosophy Archived 30 May 2019 at the Wayback Machine
• "The Politics of Paradox" from the 2009 TELOS conference
• Lazarus Style Comeback, Times Higher Education, 16 April 2009