Tag Archives: john milbank

Gnostic Apocalypse

Posted on August 4, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

O’Regan, Cyril.  gnostic apocalypse:  jacob boehme’s haunted narrative Boehme is the site of the gnostic return to the modern world (ix).  CR hints that Milbank is also credited with the gnostic return (2). The discourse is “haunted” in the sense … Continue reading →

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The Future of Love (Milbank)

Posted on August 2, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

I’ve been critical of Radical Orthodoxy in the past.  I think it’s ontology mutes all distinctions, or wants to anyway.  Nonetheless, John Milbank is just fun to read.  And check out his twitter account. Tweets by johnmilbank3 I’m posting this … Continue reading →

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Review: Horton, Covenant and Salvation

Posted on July 12, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

Horton attempts to give a full-orbed defense of Reformed soteriology, utilizing current scholarship, identifying potential weaknesses, and communicating this in a new and cogent manner. And he has largely succeeded. Similar to other projects, Horton places salvation within a covenantal … Continue reading →

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Post-Brexit 2.0

Posted on July 27, 2016 by J. B. Aitken

I initially looked at Brexit with glee.  Anything that makes leftists cry is always a good thing.  But this glee was always tempered with suspicion–so voting is now an honest thing and isn’t manipulated? So even though Brexit appeared to … Continue reading →

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Propaedeutic comments on Milbank and RO

Posted on January 24, 2016 by J. B. Aitken

Also titled: A Return to Radical Orthodoxy after 10+ Years of Criticism. I am going to reflect on some criticisms made of Milbank’s work (and note he has answered some of these in The Future of Love, even agreeing with a … Continue reading →

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Nihilism as Onto-Agon

Posted on January 22, 2016 by J. B. Aitken

“For nihilism, the flux is a medium of perpetual conflict, a pagan agon where the most powerful rhetoric will temporarily triumph, only to succumb to an apparently or effectively more powerful discourse in the future” ~John Milbank, The Future of … Continue reading →

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Through Hegel, Fire, and Sword

Posted on December 5, 2015 by J. B. Aitken

(With proper acknowledgments to Lewis Ayres for the title). Consistency in life and doctrine is a mark of the gospel.  The godly man  does not flit from doctrine to doctrine.   That represents an unstable mind.  However, consistency of doctrine is … Continue reading →

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