Alison Milbank

Alison Milbank (born October 10, 1954 ) is a British Anglican priestess , theologian and literary scholar . She is Canon Theologian at Southwell Minster and Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham .

Educational path

Alison Milbank was born Alison Grant Legg on October 19, 1954. She studied theology and English literature at Girton College , Cambridge , where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1978 and a Master of Arts in 1981 . She took part in a postgraduate program at Lancaster University , which she completed with a PhD in Philosophy in 1988.

Academic and ecclesiastical career

Alison Milbank was a fellow at the John Rylands Research Institute at the University of Manchester . After temporary employment at the University of Cambridge and Middlesex University , she taught at the University of Virginia in the United States for five years . She has been a professor at the University of Nottingham in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies since 2004 and currently chairs the same.

Milbank's research interests focus on the relationship between religion and culture in the post- Enlightenment period, with a particular focus on non-realistic literature and artistic expression. Her most recent book publications include a treatise on the Catholic poetry of JRR Tolkien and GK Chesterton as well as a consideration of the theological dimension of the English gothic novel from its creation in pre-Reformation times to the present day.

From 2005 to 2006, Milbank was prepared for ordination in the Church of England through the East Midlands Ministry Training Course . In 2006 she was ordained a deaconess ; the ordination of priests followed the following year. From 2006 to 2009 she was a curate at Holy Trinity Church in Lambley ( Nottinghamshire ). She has been the vicar at Southwell Minster since 2009 .

family

In 1978 Alison Legg married the theologian John Milbank , one of the leading thinkers of the radical orthodoxy theological currents .

Publications

Monographs

• Daughters of the House: modes of the gothic in Victorian fiction Macmillan, Basingstoke 1992, ISBN 978-0333566152 .
• Dante and the Victorians. Manchester University Press 1998, ISBN 978-0-7190-3700-9 .
• Chesterton and Tolkien as theologians: the fantasy of the real . T&T Clark 2007, ISBN 978-0-567-04094-7 .
• (with Andrew Davison :) For the Parish: a critique of fresh expressions . SCM Press 2010, ISBN 978-0334043652 .
• God and the Gothic: Religion, Romance and Reality in the English Literary Tradition . Oxford University Press 2018, ISBN 978-0198824466 .

Editing

• Ann Ward Radcliffe : The castles of Athlin and Dunbayne . Oxford University Press 1995, ISBN 978-0-19-282357-1 .
• Josephine Butler and Anglican social action on prostitution today . George Mann, Winchester 2007, ISBN 0955241545 .
• Ann Ward Radcliffe: A Sicilian Romance . Oxford University Press 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-953739-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ New Canon Theologian and a Canon Chancellor Appointed . Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham. Retrieved July 28, 2018.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Alison Milbank . University of Nottingham. Retrieved August 4, 2019.
3. ↑ ^{a b} MILBANK, Prof. (Alasdair) John . Oxford University Press. November 2016. Retrieved August 4, 2018.
4. ↑ Milbank, Alison . Identifiants et reférentiels. Retrieved August 4, 2018.
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Alison Grant Milbank . Crockford's Clerical Directory. Retrieved August 4, 2018.
6. ^ Alison Milbank: Continuum - Alison Milbank . Continuumbooks.com. Retrieved on February 10, 2012  ( page no longer available )
7. ^ Department of Theology and Religious Studies . University of Nottingham. Retrieved August 4, 2019.
8. ^ Who's Who at Southwell Minster . The Church of England. Retrieved August 4, 2018.

Web links

• Interview with Dr Alison Milbank author of Chesterton and Tolkien as Theologians , Tolkien Library , October 22, 2007