John Milbank
Biography
John Milbank wrote The Future of Love, The Suspended Middle, and The Legend of Death.
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A Political Theology of Climate Change
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This book offers us a new level of seriousness in developing a theological ecology. . . . Michael Northcott has the unusual intelligence to be able to see the link between `soft' green issues on the one hand and `hard' issues of international relations theory on the other. . . . If we are not once more to resort to an oppressive mode of imperialism which is only likely to speed up global warming, then we have to discover a more cultural and consensual mode of international collaboration, within a horizon of virtue. Since any such collaboration must take a substantive form, the role of the church here remains crucial.”
Theology
Foreword
“This book begins with an invocation of Jane Austen at her wittiest, on the matter of balls and boredom . . . One might say that Josephine Gabelman has more boldly suggested than anyone hitherto that the Christian life, if it is true to the Christian vision, should be more like a ball than a conversation--however fascinating.”
Theology
“In the wake of Pope Benedict's encyclical Deus Caritas Est, which proclaimed the unity of eros and agape, it is most timely to have this fine new edition of Burnaby's great book, which is at once a refutation of Nygren's thesis concerning the separation of the two loves and a still unrivalled exposition of the heart of Augustine's theology.”
Philosophy
“At last English readers have available a translation of one of the great masterworks of twentieth-century theology and philosophy, giving them a much better sense of the course of both Catholic and Protestant thought since the inter-war period. John Betz and David Bentley Hart have done a remarkable job of rendering Przywara's Analogia Entis into highly readable English without losing any of the sense or nuances of the German original.”
Science & Faith
“This in-itself-wonderful collection of essays by globally eminent theologians and philosophers asks that we return science to contemplative wonder for the sake of a more rigorous veracity.”
Being the Body of Christ in the Age of Management
Church Leadership & Ministry
“To govern the Church by neoliberal criteria of supposed 'efficiency' is surely a mode of 'corpolatry' that substitutes the body of an idol for the body of Christ, just as 'idolatry' substitutes the face of an idol for the face of God in Christ. This new book makes such a case in a very powerful manner, while also explaining why the grasp of secular organization theory by current church leaders is rather poor in any case. Shakespeare issues, in effect, a clarion call to all seriously able and visionary clergy and theologians to now find ways to seize the initiative from the semi-talented and conformist liberal careerists who are so sadly to the fore in the churches, obscuring the real Christian cultural and intellectual revival that is underway in Europe and the Americas.”
Theology
“In a wide-ranging work that takes intelligent account of figures ranging from Marx to Dostoevsky, from Schmitt to Solovyov, and from Voegelin to Grossman, Mrowczynski-Van Allen offers a remarkable rereading of the theological construction of the modern state and how it is the case that only a non-dualist Christian theology can counter the insane oscillation of the modern state between liberalism and totalitarianism.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“In tones of characteristically elusive profundity, Oliver O'Donovan forces the reader of his new book to realize that contemporary 'gayness' represents an enigma which demands a long period of sustained cultural, ethical, and theological reflection before the Church can hope to reach any well-grounded consensus on this issue. He hints that the latter might well be at once more conservative and yet more radical than the political moralizing and prudishness theological liberals might desire. Yet if campaigning for 'gay rights' is dismissed as both inappropriate and premature, the schismatic reaction of certain evangelicals is roundly condemned. Indeed, O'Donovan has here achieved nothing less than an indication of just how Anglicanism can in the future reconstruct itself through a recovery of a Hooker-like sense of Episcopalian Catholicity, and the Patristic integration of Platonic wisdom with Biblical revelation, on the part of more discerning evangelicals like himself.”
Theology
“In this ecumenically important book, Brian argues that Karl Barth is best regarded as a transitional figure who crucially helped open up the current, post-Protestant era in theology by breaking with the tropes of nominalism and voluntarism, which had imprisoned the mainline Reformation and distorted their grasp of orthodox Christology. He makes a convincing case that requires to be taken seriously.”
Theology
“Aaron Riches has here produced by far the most novel, scholarly, and consequent contribution to Christology of recent times. He exposes the dominant semi-Nestorianism of modern theology, traces its ultimate roots in the difficult reception of the conciliar tradition from Ephesus to Constantinople II in the Latin West, and the resurgence of homo assumptus Christology in the Middle Ages and then, more powerfully, among Scotists; against this perennial semi-Nestorianism he argues instead for the more radical orthodoxy of the Cyrillian position, recovered in the Middle Ages by Thomas Aquinas, and expressed for Riches in a mystical key by the seventeenth-century French Dominican writer Louis Chardon.”
Discipleship & Christian Education
“A future Christian revival may depend on the development of a Christian alternative to our current mode of education, which has surrendered to liberal, managerialist, and technocratic ideology. A Christian alternative can potentially exercise mass appeal and therefore prove the most effective instrument of mission for the future. Ted Newell has produced an immensely useful handbook for this task. I thoroughly recommend it.”
Philosophy
“Matthew Vest successfully shows that unless we recover more metaphysical and spiritual perspectives upon cosmology, we will soon lose our ethical bearing altogether, in the face of our ever-greater ability to alter the natural world.”
Theology
“In this book Hunter Coates explains further why [universalism] belongs to the genuine, deep structure of orthodoxy by placing it in clear relation to the Bible, the doctrine of God, the philosophies of free will, and the meaning of existence.”
Philosophy
“This succinct little book gives us an excellent critique of recent discussions of idolatry. Benson is both fair to Levinas and Marion and astutely perceptive concerning the questions which they fail to raise.”
Theology
“Nathan Jennings has produced a brilliant short primer in liturgical theology, regarded as the core of theology as such. He very well shows how this truer perspective integrates the Platonic and philosophical with the apocalyptic and Biblical aspects of Christianity, and shows them to be inseparable. A crucial text for the future.”
“In a work erudite in its scope and wise in its analyses, James Lawson shows that to follow Christ is at once to embrace the fallen world more fully than anyone else, and yet in its midst to have no part of it whatsoever. This double way of incarnation and cross is only united as a process of incomplete and not fully foreseeable transfiguration of the world which we must enter into and carry forwards.”
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