Event overview
John Milbank from the University of Nottingham will be giving the final lecture of the InC (Research Group in Continental Philosophy) autumn seminar series.
John Milbank joined the Department of Theology at the University of Nottingham in September 2004. He has previously taught at the Universities of Lancaster, Cambridge and Virginia. He is the author of several books of which the most well-known is Theology and Social Theory and the most recent Being Reconciled: Ontology and Pardon.
He is one of the editors of the Radical Orthodoxy collection of essays which occasioned much debate. In general he has endeavoured in his work to resist the idea that secular norms of understanding should set the agenda for theology and has tried to promote the sense that Christianity offers a rich and viable account of the whole of reality. At the same time he tends to insist that Christianity is itself eclectic and fuses many traditions - particularly that of biblical narrative with that of Greek philosophy.
In style his theology is eclectic, interdisciplinary and essayistic - though it aims to be systematic in a somewhat ad hoc fashion. So far he has produced two books in the areas of Christian doctrine and ethics - though both have a strong philosophical component. In addition he has sustained interests in developing a political and social theology - critical of the liberationist current as insufficiently theological, while retaining a left-leaning perspective. Currently he is pursuing a long-term project concerning the topic of 'gift' which involves all the above-mentioned concerns. In the long-term he hopes to develop a fully-fledged 'Trinitarian ontology'.
Recent Publications
MILBANK, J., 2006. The Thomistic Telescope: truth and identity. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 80(2), 193-226.
DAVIS, C., MILBANK, J., ŽIžEK, S., eds., 2005. Theology and the political: the new debate. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
MILBANK, A.J., 2005. Fictioning Things: Gift and Narrative. Religion and Literature, 37(3), 1-37.
MILBANK, J., 2005. Materialism and transcendence. In: DAVIS, C., MILBANK, J., ŽIžEK, S., eds. Theology and the political: the new debate. North Carolina: Duke University Press, pp. xii, 476
Dates & times
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15 Dec 2010 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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