John Milbank

Author of Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason

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About the Author

John Milbank is professor of religion, politics, and ethics at the University of Nottingham, England, and director of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy at Nottingham. His other books include Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason and Beyond Secular Order: The Representation of Being show more and the Representation of the People. show less

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Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason (1990) 330 copies, 3 reviews

The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? (2008) — Author — 242 copies, 2 reviews

Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology (1998) — Editor — 217 copies, 1 review

The Suspended Middle: Henri de Lubac and the Debate Concerning the Supernatural (2005) 131 copies, 1 review

The Word Made Strange: Theology, Language, Culture (1997) 102 copies

Being Reconciled: Ontology and Pardon (2003) 92 copies

Truth in Aquinas (2000) 73 copies

Theology and the Political: The New Debate (2005) — Editor — 58 copies

The Politics of Virtue: Post-Liberalism and the Human Future (Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy,… (2016) 43 copies

The Future of Love: Essays in Political Theology (2009) 38 copies

The Radical Orthodoxy Reader (2009) 38 copies

Beyond Secular Order: The Representation of Being and the Representation of the People (2013) 35 copies

Theological Perspectives on God and Beauty (Rockwell Lecture Series) (2003) 35 copies, 2 reviews

Paul's New Moment: Continental Philosophy and the Future of Christian Theology (2010) 31 copies

Notes on Bergson and Descartes: Philosophy, Christianity, and Modernity in Contestation (Veritas) (2019) — Editor — 7 copies

The Legend of Death: Two Poetic Sequences (2008) 5 copies

The religious dimension in the thought of Giambattista Vico, 1668-1744 (1991) 4 copies

After Science and Religion: Fresh Perspectives from Philosophy and Theology (2022) — Editor — 4 copies

The Mercurial Wood (Salzburg Studies in English Literature) (1998) 3 copies

Proposing Theology (Veritas) (2007) 2 copies

The dances of Albion : a poetic topography (2015) 1 copy

Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping a Post-secular Theology 1 copy

Teologia e teoria social 1 copy

Polygraph 19/20: Cities of Men, Cities of God: Augustine and Late Secularism (2008) 1 copy

Philosophy: A Theological Critique (2018) 1 copy

Some Speaking Swirls (2023) 1 copy

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The Modern Theologians: An Introduction to Christian Theology Since 1918 (2005) — Contributor, some editions — 212 copies, 1 review

Must Christianity Be Violent?: Reflections on History, Practice, and Theology (2003) — Contributor — 86 copies

The Blackwell Companion to Postmodern Theology (2001) — Contributor — 76 copies

Imaginative Apologetics: Theology, Philosophy and the Catholic Tradition (2011) — Foreword — 60 copies, 1 review

Augustine and his Critics (Christian Origins) (2000) — Contributor — 39 copies

Christian Origins: Theology, Rhetoric and Community (1998) — Contributor — 27 copies

Shari'a in the West (2010) — Contributor — 14 copies

Encounter Between Eastern Orthodoxy and Radical Orthodoxy: Transfiguring the World Through the Word (2009) — Contributor — 11 copies

Political Theology for a Plural Age (2013) — Contributor — 9 copies

The Gift of Difference: Radical Orthodoxy, Radical Reformation (2010) — Foreword — 7 copies

Rethinking metaphysics (1995) — Contributor — 4 copies

Theology and the soul of the liberal state (2009) — Contributor — 4 copies

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Legal name: Milbank, Alastair John
Birthdate: 1952
Gender: male
Nationality: England
UK
Education: University of Birmingham (PhD|Theology)

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The Suspended Middle: Henri de Lubac and the Debate… by John Millbank

For Milbank, this is beautifully written, which is not at all an absolute statement of quality prose. On the upside, it's short and ably sets out Milbank's reading of Lubac: against the scholastic, and 'modernist', distinction between the supernatural and the natural. Probably could have been a short article rather than a short book.

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stillatim | Oct 23, 2020 |

The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic?… by Slavoj Zizek

We are dealing here yet again with the Lacanian logic of the non-All: God allows me to not to believe in vulgar miracles and to accept the basic rationality of the universe; without this exception, there is nothing I am not ready to believe.

My encounters with Žižek's theology [b:God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse|12121640|God in Pain Inversions of Apocalypse|Slavoj Žižek|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1333580938s/12121640.jpg|17090966] and [b:The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity|18913|The Puppet and the Dwarf The Perverse Core of Christianity|Slavoj Žižek|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347299119s/18913.jpg|20258] have been uniformly fecund. As a public atheist/private agnostic I felt the sway of his discussions without the cold "fuck off" of Mr Dawkins. That vibrant ease may have run aground with The Monstrosity of Christ. Perhaps the fault, if not my own dulardness, lies, instead, at its thematic core. Both Žižek and John Milbank parse Hegel in their debate over the role of theology in our times. Shooting from the hip, I would've gathered that Heidegger would've been the more reasoned choice, but then again I'm the one flailing about in the shallow end of the theoretical pool. This was a tough climb and I admit to being annoyed with Slavoj's impertinence and Milbank's uncertain forays into concepts, especially the notion of the dialectic.

The leading citation at the top is a response to Chesterton's notion that if one doesn't beleive in God, then one will beleive in anything. That is a statement of potential and pitfall.… (more)

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jonfaith | 1 other review | Feb 22, 2019 |

Theological Perspectives on God and Beauty (Rockwell… by John Milbank

Very helpful collection of papers. Milbank's is good, focusing on the concept of the sublime as he often does (see also his essay on Kierkegaard in Phillip Blond's _Post-Secular Philosophy_ collection), but I found the best and most appealing to be Graham Ward's essay.

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ericaustinlee | 1 other review | Jul 8, 2008 |

Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason… by John Milbank

This is a very dense, and very hard to read, even if you are schooled in the various fields Milbanks covers. His thesis, that theology has a place at the table, but on its own terms, not just as a bastard step child, is admirable. I would give it five stars, except that it is just inpenetrable in too many places.