John Milbank and David Bentley Hart Podcast

"You Are Gods" with David Bentley Hart and John Milbank https://t.co/HAnpL5qOci via @YouTube

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) November 16, 2021

"Being Christian in a Secular Age"

In this 5th video on Being Christian in a Secular Age, Fr Justin & I use insights from the Radical Orthodoxy of @johnmilbank3 and @pickstockc to see "Glimpses of Transcendence" in this bustling marketplace of spiritualities that is our Secular Age https://t.co/D7o2d9YfEw

— Nicholas Forti (@KNicholasForti) August 28, 2021

Agree or Disagree?

And thus the angels were astonished (as the Greek Fathers insisted) to see this unexpected kinship between the eternity of God and the ‘it has happened’ of time and of the flesh. They do not possess thus kinship. And this is why deified humanity is raised above them.

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) August 12, 2021

Milbank's "Orthodoxy"

The real orthodoxy: to see how one can further elucidate Anselm with Kabbalah etc. God’s loving will to save each one of us is inseparable from his vindication, even ‘restoration’ (though immediate) of his own nature as loving. Why atonement not just act of his will was needed.

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) February 6, 2021

The source of Milbank's universalism?

There's a Trinitarian/Christological Heresy

The Son is so absolutely dependent on the Father that paradoxically he is entirely independent of him. He is only equal to the Father as receiving all from him but as receiving all he is of himself self-originated and self-unified else he would not be equal.Per filium as Filioque

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) October 27, 2020

The Logical Consequences of Hart's Universalism?

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Plotinus as Progress

All this suggests that a Trinitarian ontology will naturally tend to revise Aristotle. Perhaps even more than Aquinas did, though he did revise Aristotelian metaphysics both neoplatonically and for doctrinal reasons. (As neo-Thomism ignores.)

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) July 26, 2020

For Plato and Plotinus there are five genres of being, rest, motion, same and other that are really more like transcendentals. In fully real intelligible reality they fully coincide. In material reality they more tend to exclude each other and come in degrees.

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) July 26, 2020

Plotinus also questions Aristotle’s distinction of action and making. For him even action as thought moves, goes out from itself, emanates. Augustine and Aquinas’s thought on verbum is jn this lineage. (Lonergan totally wrong here.)

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) July 26, 2020

More from Milbank on Empire

Thanks very much for this. Responses: I think no easy line between supposed organicism of states and artificiality of empire. China is historically an empire and organic. Roman Empire had a shared ‘organic’ culture. In some ways empires more than states put culture first. https://t.co/2iH95pguL0

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) July 1, 2020

David Cayley Interviews John Milbank

Radical Orthodoxy

The Last Installment of Milbank's Series

Church Life: Justice and Rights in Europe Today by John Milbank
In all the ways that I have indicated earlier in this six-part series, one can readily argue that liberalism, even Kantian liberalism, is not, after all, metaphysically agnostic. To...

The Latest Installment in Milbank's Series

Church Life: Maritain’s Postwar Compromise of Natural Law by John Milbank

The Next Two Parts of John Milbank's Series

The History of Natural Right by John Milbank
Given this revisionary account of the development of natural law (click for previous instalment in this series) in western intellectual history, how does it relate to the story of...

Burke’s Romantic Restoration of Natural Law by John Milbank

Part 2 of the Series by Milbank

First in a 6-Part Series

Church Life: A Revisionist Account of Natural Law and Natural Right by John Milbank

John Milbank on the eastward movement of western theology

Radical Orthodoxy: An Interview with John Milbank and Catherine Pickstock

More finger-pointing at Duns Scotus for what ails Western culture.

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