Counter-Ontology For Milbank, Christian theology/sociology has to provide a “counter-ontology” because, as required by the provision of a different ethics, it has to establish an ontology of participation united with an epistemology of analogy, both of which are necessary to provide depth to all reality. Outside of such ontology of participation, all reality is flattened; […]
As discussed in the previous article, Milbank argues that, Christian theology and sociology has to provide, first, a “counter-history.” It has to deny that history is reducible to purely humanistic and pragmatic socio-political arrangements, and rather it has to argue that there is a transcendental dimension to history that grounds its ethics, as well as […]
First, Christian theology and sociology has to provide a “counter-history.” It has to deny that history is reducible to purely humanistic and pragmatic socio-political arrangements, and rather it has to argue that there is a transcendental dimension to history that grounds its ethics, as well as its political and social practices (since theological and metaphysical […]
Milbank explicitly draws from the criticisms raised by Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788) and Franz Heinrich Jacobi (1743-1819) against their contemporary philosophical trends. Both were Lutheran and Milbank sees them recovering a “knowledge by faith alone” as a counterpart of “justification by faith alone.” According to Milbank, their main project was to question the idea of […]
Milbank argues that theology is itself a social science, and the queen of the sciences for the inhabitants of the “other city,” the city of God, the altera civitas. This is the city which itself is in pilgrimage through this temporary world. This city has (or should have) its own social science because it has […]
“Once, there was no ‘secular.’”[1] The first line of Milbank’s Theology and Social Theory is not only witty – it profoundly expresses, in condensed form, the major presupposition of Radical Orthodoxy, i.e., that ontology, epistemology, metaphysics, social theory and practice, and indeed all realms of human culture and knowledge, were, during the first millennia of […]
Luminous Darkness 