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John Milbank is a Christian theologian and the Professor of Religion, Politics and Ethics at the University of Nottingham where he also directs the Centre of Theology and Philosophy. Milbank gained wide recognition after the publication of Theology and Social Theory (1990), in which he laid out the theoretical foundations for the theological sensibility which later became known as Radical Orthodoxy. In his most recently published monograph, Beyond Secular Order (2013), which is intended to be the first of a two-volume sequel to Theology and Social Theory, Milbank continues his project of tracing the roots of “the secular” by focusing on the genealogy of modern thought, and in particular on political ontology. Milbank argues that what is apparently secular in modern ontologies in reality derives from particular accounts of theology. As an alternative to modern secular ontology, which Milbank paradoxically argues has theological roots, he presents an alternative theological ontology, or a counter-metaphysics and politics.
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John Milbank, The Word Made Strange: Theology, Language, Culture (Wiley-Blackwell, 1997), 250.
Jennifer A. Herdt, “The Endless Construction of Charity: On Milbank’s Critique of Political Economy,” Journal of Religious Ethics 32, no. 2 (2004): 301; I am indebted to Jennifer A. Herdt for the suggested alternative title as a clever play on Blumenberg, The Legitimacy of the Modern Age.
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Bengtson, J. (2015). Analogy and Corporatist Pluralism. In: Explorations in Post-Secular Metaphysics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137553362_4
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