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In focusing in this section on Lowth and Berkeley, I am also deliberately trying to disinter a spirit within British tradition which runs counter to the myth of British identity to which it has nonetheless surrendered: that it is empiricist, philistine and basely pragmatic.

John Milbank

Perhaps the most surprise, the most shock, should arise when what is said is really most orthodox and ancient, since the tradition is so rarely re-performed in practice today.

John Milbank

I seek, after George Berkeley, especially, to elaborate a notion of the real itself as linguistic, and as divine language, and, after Robert Lowth and Johann Georg Hamann, to develop a theory of human being as linguistic being which participates in the divine linguistic being.

John Milbank

John Milbank

John Milbank

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Born: October 23, 1952 (age 72)

Bio: Alasdair John Milbank is an Anglican Christian theologian and the Research Professor of Religion, Politics and Ethics at the University of Nottingham, where he also directs the Centre of Theology and Philosophy.

Known for:

Theology and Social Theory (1991)
The word made strange (1997)
Being reconciled (2003)
The Suspended Middle (2005)
Truth in Aquinas (2000)

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