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Title: Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason (Signposts in Theology) by John Milbank ISBN: 0-631-18948-3 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: October, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $41.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: difficult but important
Comment: This is a large work that I would only recommended to scholars and graduate students that have done quite a bit of reading in social theory prior to cracking open this book. I found myself that I enjoyed those chapters more in which I was more familar with the texts and ideas being studied. Other parts of the book left me wanting to do more background reading. It is obvious that Milbank has an incredibly erudite knowledge of both theology and social theory, and it seems to me that this a text that can be quite easily misunderstood. For the patient, however, I believe that its contents are a powerful message for Christian theology that just now seems to be able to see itself as philosphically on par with the Enlightenment tradition and its successors beyond apologetics. Milbank's critique the servility of theology behind the profane narratives of humanity and history and ends his work with the articulation of a Neo-Platonist, Christian alternative. Of course, it pisses some people off, since it refuses to bow to popular assertions such as "Christianity is a tool for supporting and promoting patriarchal domination," and other such tripe.
Rating: 5
Summary: devastating, epic, brilliant
Comment: Milbank's work is dense, frustrating, painfully difficult, and nothing less than brilliant. Not only does he persuasively demythologize modernity's own demythologization of Christianity, he levels the great icons of the post/modern age in the process! As the cover states, this book is a 'tour de force' of the highest degree, and truly epic in proportions. As one completes the final page (not a small feat indeed!) one is left with the sentiment that western history might just need to be rewritten.
Rating: 5
Summary: Milbank has your number
Comment: Milbank appears to have struck a nerve. A glance at the user profile of the writer below will you give you a sense of where this guy is coming from. In effect this "review" is a fairly desperate attempt to circle the wagons around the dogmas of the left-academic establishment. The point that is missed here (and it's one of the keys to Milbank's argument) is that these folks do indeed have not just "assumptions" but dogmas, comprising in effect a secular, materialist religion, one that sees nothing at work in the world except amoral "power relations." (The only thing that matters in the end is who has the power.) That there are still people out there who can be moved to a spirited defense of this point of view, which has served as the ideological foundation of so many of the horrors of the 20th century, is more than a little depressing.
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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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Title: The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age by George A. Lindbeck ISBN: 0664246184 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Pub. Date: April, 1984 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Being Reconciled: Ontology and Pardon by John Milbank ISBN: 041530525X Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation by Volf Miroslav, Miroslav Volf ISBN: 0687002826 Publisher: Abingdon Press Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Cities of God (Radical Orthodoxy) by Graham Ward ISBN: 0415202566 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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