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Title: Being Reconciled: Ontology and Pardon by John Milbank ISBN: 0-415-30525-X Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Theology of Gift
Comment: As an avid reader of theology, this is the most difficult book I have read. Those not well read in theology and philosophy should begin elsewhere. It seems that Milbank writes so that readers will have to struggle with the book nearly as much as he has obviously struggled with the issues it presents. That said, this is a very profound work that opens many avenues of research. Milbank is committed to recasting the orthodox conception of God into our "postmodern" context. Thus he works from the assumption that the classical attributes of God (omniscience, omnipotence, immutibility, etc.) are true. In this work, Milbank explores the category of "gift" as a way of understanding God's interaction in the world, specifically in terms of forgiveness. The book moves from an understanding of evil as privation, to the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, and finally to the church and interaction with contemporary culture. Along the way, Milbank draws heavily on the work of many theologians and philosophers. I do not agree with all that is presented in this book, but it most definately caused me to think more critically about the positions I hold.
Rating: 4
Summary: Heavy, heavy Philosophical-Theological Study.
Comment: This book is very difficult reading, at least for me, but the subject matter is so important, that its worth the effort. John Milbank opens up many insights for further study by Christian Scholars. I must admit that some of it is over my head, I had to repeatedly refer to various dictionaries, and still did not find the needed definitions for some of the words used, in the text. Still I got the gist of most of what He is saying, I think? In the chapter on the Incarnation, He goes somewhat toward an answer to the vexing question of the impossible fact that according to Christian Teaching the Human Race did Fall,despite being in communion with the perfect infinite Creator. He goes into the possibility of forgiveness being possible because God did in fact become a Human Being in Jesus Christ, linking the forgiveness offered by God through the Deified Humanity of Jesus. This also has implications for Escatalogy, in how this might prevent the Fall from happening again a second time, a sort of second impossibility. Whew!!! Like I said this is tough going for just an interested layman, My understanding of Professor Milbank's book, may be way off. I intend to reread it several times, like I said the subject matter is worth such an effort. Thanks for listening. Sincerely Richard Woodhouse. Bradford PA
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Title: Theopolitical Imagination by William T. Cavanaugh ISBN: 0567088774 Publisher: T&t Clark Ltd Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Theological Perspectives on God and Beauty (Rockwell Lecture Series) by John Milbank, Graham Ward, Edith Wyschogrod ISBN: 1563384140 Publisher: Triumph Books Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Speech and Theology: Language and the Logic of Incarnation (Radical Orthodoxy) by James K. A. Smith, James K.A. Smith ISBN: 0415276969 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Genealogy of Nihilism: Philosophies of Nothing & the Difference of Theology (Radical Orthodoxy) by Conor Cunningham ISBN: 0415276942 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology by John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock, Graham Ward ISBN: 041519699X Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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