John Milbank

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John Milbank
Milbank seated at a panel
Milbank in October 2014
Born
Alasdair John Milbank

(1952-10-23) 23 October 1952 (age 71)
Kings Langley, England
Spouse
Sebastian Milbank
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisThe Priority of the Made (1986)
Doctoral advisorLeon Pompa
Influences
Academic work
Discipline
  • Theology
  • philosophy
Sub-discipline
School or tradition
Institutions
Doctoral students
Notable works
Notable ideasRadical orthodoxy
Influenced

Alasdair John Milbank (born 23 October 1952) is an English

University of Lancaster. He is also chairman of the trustees of the think tank ResPublica
.

Milbank founded the

political theory, and political theology. He first gained recognition after publishing Theology and Social Theory in 1990, which laid the theoretical foundations for the movement which later became known as radical orthodoxy. In recent years he has collaborated on three books with philosopher Slavoj Žižek and Creston Davis, entitled Theology and the Political: The New Debate (2005), The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic (2009), and Paul's New Moment: Continental Philosophy and the Future of Christian Theology (2010). Milbank delivered the Stanton Lectures at Cambridge in 2011.[31] Milbank's friendship and substantial intellectual common ground with David Bentley Hart has been noted several times by both thinkers.[32]

Life

Education

Following his

modern history from The Queen's College, Oxford.[17][33] He was awarded a postgraduate certificate in theology from Westcott House, Cambridge.[33] During his time in Cambridge he studied under Rowan Williams.[12] He then received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Birmingham.[33] His dissertation on the work of Giambattista Vico, entitled "The Priority of the Made: Giambattista Vico and the Analogy of Creation", was written under the supervision of Leon Pompa.[34] The University of Cambridge awarded him a senior Doctor of Divinity degree in recognition of published work in 1998.[35]

Personal life

Milbank was born in

Sebastian Milbank.[41]

Thought

A key part of the controversy surrounding Milbank concerns his view of the relationship between theology and the

trinitarian ontology. He relies heavily on aspects of the thought of Plato and Augustine, in particular the former's modification by the neoplatonist
philosophers.

Milbank, together with

Anglo-Catholic approach which is highly critical of modernity
.

Reception

Paul Hedges of in 2014 wrote in Open Theology that Milbank's "theology is at best unhelpful, and at worst potentially dangerous".[a]

Nicholas Lash expressed reservations towards Milbank's views on the relation between "the sense of 'power' (Macht)"[sic] and "violence", and between "the Kingdom"[sic] and the Church.[47][48]

Views

Milbank explicitly supports '

socialis[t]' social organization.[16][49][50][51][52][53]

He has been described as '

communitarian'.[54][55][56]

Milbank has written against "legislative change" to legalize same-sex marriage,[b] and against assisted suicide.[c]

Milbank disavowed affinities with several forms of contextual theology.[d]

See also

Bibliography

Books

Essays in edited volumes

Journal articles

Notes

  1. ^ Paul Hedges of S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University stated in one 2014 Open Theology article that "John Milbank's Radical Orthodoxy employs styles of rhetoric and representation of the religious Other that have clear affinities" with "ideologies" of "religious extremism and fundamentalism". Hedges wrote that Milbank's "rhetoric and judgements" suggest that "his theology is at best unhelpful, and at worst potentially dangerous." Hedges simultaneously concedes that "a different approach can be detected in his most recent writings".[43][44][45][46]
  2. ^ Milbank has described "legislative change" to legalize same-sex marriage[57] as a strategy for the "extension of a form of biopolitical tyranny", arguing that "[w]here the reality of sexual difference is denied, then it gets reinvented in perverse ways - just as the over-sexualisation of women and the confinement of men to a marginalised machismo. Secondly, it would end the public legal recognition of a social reality defined in terms of the natural link between sex and procreation." He drew on James Alison to assert that "it is possible to recognise the legitimacy of faithful homosexual union without conceding that this is tantamount to marriage".[58]
  3. ^ Milbank also describes the medical practice of assisted suicide as "the polite, liberal Holocaust".[59]
  4. ^ He allegedly characterised "liberation, local, 'practice based' black, feminist, queer, trans, disability" theologies as "tiresome careerist and naturally elitist bollocks. But no one serious takes it seriously."[60]

References

  1. ^ a b c Milbank, John (19 February 2016). "Interview: John Milbank, Theologian". Church Times. Interviewed by Davison, Andrew. London. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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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    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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    ISBN 978-0-521-61189-3
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  18. ^ Harris, John (8 August 2009). "Phillip Blond: The Man Who Wrote Cameron's Mood Music". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  19. ^ Leithart, Peter J. (28 January 2019). "John Milbank: A Guide for the Perplexed". Mere Orthodoxy. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  20. ^ Kennedy, Paul (2007). "On Radical Orthodoxy". Ideas (Podcast). Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Event occurs at 0:05:57–0:06:12. Retrieved 11 February 2018 – via Centre of Theology and Philosophy.
  21. ^ "Dr. D. Aaron Riches". Granada, Spain: Institute of Philosophy "Edith Stein". Archived from the original on 26 October 2018. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
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  27. ^ Smith, James K. A. (17 December 2015). "Christmas, 2015: Dr. James K.A. Smith". The Anglican Planet. Interviewed by Careless, Sue. Archived from the original on 28 July 2018. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  28. ^ "Department of Theology and Religious Studies: John Milbank". The University of Nottingham. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  29. ^ "Staff". Centre of Theology and Philosophy. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  30. ^ Leithart, Peter. "John Milbank: A Guide for the Perplexed - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture". mereorthodoxy.com. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  31. ^ "Stanton Lectures". Cambridge University. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  32. ^ "'You Are Gods' with David Bentley Hart and John Milbank". University of Notre Dame Press. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
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  35. ^ "Participants: John Milbank". John Templeton Foundation. Archived from the original on 6 August 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
  36. ^ a b Contemporary Authors Online, s.v. "(Alasdair) John Milbank" Accessed 9 March 2009
  37. ^ Date of birth information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding WorldCat Identities linked authority file (LAF). Retrieved on 14 February 2018.
  38. ^ "Department of Theology and Religious Studies - The University of Nottingham". www.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  39. ^ "Milbank, Prof. (Alasdair) John". Who's Who 2017. Oxford University Press. November 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
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  41. ^ "Interview: Alison Milbank, theologian". www.churchtimes.co.uk. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
  42. ^ "Nietzsche, Putin and the spirit of Russia | John Milbank » IAI TV". Archived from the original on 8 December 2022.
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  45. ^ "The Rhetoric and Reception of John Milbank's Radical Orthodoxy: Privileging Prejudice in Theology?".
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  49. ^ https://twitter.com/johnmilbank3/status/1526090256973537293
  50. ^ https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/files/174667102/FULL_TEXT.PDF
  51. ^ "Being Reconciled: Ontology and Pardon, by John Milbank". 30 July 2014.
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  53. ^ Milbank, John (2015). "WHAT IS RADICAL ORTHODOXY ? by John Milbank" (PDF). University of Freiburg. Retrieved 21 July 2020 from the original
  54. ^ "Radical Orthodoxy steps into the pulpit". The Christian Century. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
  55. ^ Milbank, John. "A Revisionist Account of Natural Law and Natural Right". Church Life Journal. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
  56. ^ Milbank, Alasdair John (23 June 2020). "Twenty-Five Theses on Empire". Theopolis Institute. Retrieved 2 March 2023. [...] a communitarian international order, based upon a shared cultural sense of natural justice, requires some sort of institutional embodiment. Not "super-states," but federated commonwealths that to a degree pool their sovereignty.
  57. ^ "Gay Marriage and the Future of Human Sexuality". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 13 March 2012.
  58. ^ The impossibility of gay marriage and the threat of biopolitical control, 23 April 2013, archived from the original on 4 August 2021
  59. ^ "Milbank quote on assisted dying". Twitter. 8 June 2023. The polite, liberal Holocaust
  60. ^ "John Milbank's Twitter Bombshell on the Landscape of Identity-Based Theologies". 19 July 2020.

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