John Milbank

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Alasdair John Milbank (born October 23, 1952 in Kings Langley , England ) is a British Anglican theologian and was Research Professor of Religion, Politics and Ethics at the University of Nottingham , where he continues to head the Center of Theology and Philosophy. He is also head of the Methexis Institute in Charlottesville ( Virginia ) and was chairman curator of the British think tank ResPublica .

Milbank has achieved international renown as the main architect of the radical orthodoxy theological currents . His work is transdisciplinary and touches the academic fields of aesthetics , ethics , philosophy , political science , social science as well as political and systematic theology .

Educational path

Milbank attended Hymers College as a secondary school and then completed a bachelor's degree at Queen's College , Oxford . He received his postgraduate certificate in theology at Westcott House , Cambridge , a college of the Anglican Church . During his time at Cambridge he studied with Rowan Williams , who later became Archbishop of Canterbury . He then received a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Birmingham . His dissertation dealt with the work of the Neapolitan philosopher Giambattista Vico and was entitled The Priority of the Made: Giambattista Vico and the Analogy of Creation . His doctoral supervisor was Leon Pompa . In 1998, Milbank was awarded the Doctor of Divinity by the University of Cambridge for his scientific publications .

Think

Milbank first became widely known for the publication of his controversial work on the relationship between theology and social science , first published in 1990 under the title Theology and Social Theory . In it he advocates the thesis that the social sciences are a product of the construct of secularism specific to modernity , which is derived from an ontology of violence. Theology should therefore refrain from trying to make constructive use of secular social science. Theology itself offers a coherent overall concept of reality that also includes the political and social. In contrast to the secular approach of the social sciences, the approach of Christian theology is based on an ontology of peace.

An essential part of Milbank's theological endeavors revolve around the search for a Christian trinitarian ontology. In this sense, his theology is shaped by metaphysical thinking. In doing so, he draws on Augustine and Plato as masterminds. The neo-Platonism , especially in the tradition about the ancient philosopher Iamblichus of Chalcis , Proclus and Pseudo-Dionysius , plays an important role in the thinking Milbank.

Together with Graham Ward and Catherine Pickstock , John Milbank founded the theological movement of Radical Orthodoxy , which can be understood as a special variety of postmodern constructivist theology. The modern-critical approach of this current is committed to the Anglo-Catholic traditions within the Anglican Church. Milbank's Theology and Social Theory can be seen as the theoretical founding text of the later developed current.

Milbank's cooperation with the left-Hegelian philosopher Slavoj Žižek and Creston Davis gave rise to an extensive debate on the relevance of Christianity to the present day and the theological thought connected with it, which is reflected in three joint book publications: Theology and the Political: The New Debate (2005) , The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? (2009), Paul's New Moment: Continental Philosophy and the Future of Christian Theology (2010).

family

In 1978 Milbank married the literary scholar , theologian and later Anglican priestess Alison Legg , who is herself a professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham . They both have two children together. Her son Sebastian Milbank is a PhD student in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge .

Publications

Monographs

  • Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason . Blackwell Publishers 1990, ISBN 0-631-18948-3 .
  • The Religious Dimension in the Thought of Giambattista Vico, 1668-1744 . Edwin Mellen Press 1998, ISBN 978-0-7190-3700-9 .
  • The Mercurial Wood: Sites, Tales, Qualities . Poetry Salzburg 1997, ISBN 3705201131 .
  • The Word Made Strange . Blackwell Publishers 1997, ISBN 0-631-20336-2 .
  • (with Catherine Pickstock :) Truth in Aquinas . Routledge 2000, ISBN 0-415-23335-6 .
  • Being Reconciled: Ontology and Pardon . Routledge 2003, ISBN 0-415-30525-X .
  • The Suspended Middle: Henri de Lubac and the Debate concerning the Supernatural . SCM Press 2005, ISBN 0-8028-2899-X .
  • The Legend of Death: Two Poetic Sequences . Wipf & Stock Publishers 2008, ISBN 978-1-55635-915-6 .
  • (with Slavoj Žižek and Creston Davis :) The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? . MIT Press 2009, ISBN 9780262012713 .
  • The Future of Love: Essays in Political Theology . Wipf & Stock Publishers 2009, ISBN 978-1-60608-162-4 .
  • (with Slavoj Žižek and Creston Davis :) Paul's New Moment: Continental Philosophy and the Future of Christian Theology . Brazos Press 2010, ISBN 978-1587432279 .
  • Beyond Secular Order: The Representation of Being and the Representation of the People . Wiley-Blackwell 2013, ISBN 9781118825297 .
  • (with Adrian Pabst :) The Politics of Virtue: Post-Liberalism and the Human Future . Rowman & Littlefield International 2016, ISBN 9781783486496 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Contemporary Authors Online , sv "(Alasdair) John Milbank". Retrieved March 9, 2009
  2. ^ The University of Nottingham: John Milbank
  3. ^ Center of Theology and Philosophy: Staff
  4. ^ The Methexis Institute
  5. ^ ResPublica
  6. ↑ Maurice Cowling : Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England , Volume 3. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England 2004, ISBN 978-0-521-61189-3 , p. 372, doi : 10.1017 / CBO9780511598517 .
  7. ↑ a b c David Grumett: Radical Orthodoxy . In: The Expository Times . 122, No. 6, 2011, ISSN  1745-5308 . doi : 10.1177 / 0014524610394523 .
  8. ^ Richard A. Davis: The Political Church and the Profane State in John Milbank and William Cavanaugh . University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh 2013, p. 220.
  9. ^ Participants: John Milbank . John Templeton Foundation. Accessed August 2019.
  10. ^ A b c Paul G. Doerksen: For and Against Milbank: A Critical Discussion of John Milbank's Construal of Ontological Peace . Conrad Grebel Review. Retrieved August 7, 2019.
  11. ^ A b Wayne J. Hankey: Theoria versus Poesis: Neoplatonism and Trinitarian Difference in Aquinas, Kohn Milbank, Jean-Luc Marion and John Zizioulas . Modern Theology. Retrieved August 7, 2019.
  12. ^ A b c John P. Cush: Radical Orthodoxy: An Overview . Homiletic & Pastoral Review. Retrieved August 6, 2019.
  13. ↑ Aaron Riches: Theurgy and the Soul: The Neoplatonism of Iamblichus . Angelico Press, New York 2014, ISBN 978-1621380726 .
  14. ^ RR Reno: The Radical Orthodoxy Project . First things. Retrieved August 6, 2019.
  15. ^ Department of Theology and Religious Studies - The University of Nottingham ( en-GB ) Retrieved August 6, 2019.
  16. ↑ MILBANK, Prof. (Alasdair) John . Oxford University Press. November 2016. Retrieved August 6, 2019.
  17. ^ Rowan Williams [1994]: A Ray of Darkness . Cowley Publications, Lanham, Maryland 1995, ISBN 978-1-4616-6072-9 , p. 199.
  18. ^ The University of Nottingham: Alison Milbank
  19. ^ Cambridge Faculty of Divinity: Sebastian Milbank

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personal data
SURNAME Milbank, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Milbank, Alasdair John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Anglican theologian and architect of the Radical Orthodoxy theological currents
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Kings Langley