Milbank, John

Alasdair John Milbank (born 23 October 1952) is a British theologian and philosopher. He is professor emeritus of Religion, Politics and Ethics at the University of Nottingham, where he is also president of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy and the Centre for Social Renewal. Milbank has previously taught at Lancaster University, University of Cambridge, and University of Virginia, where he held the Frances Myers Ball Chair of Philosophical Theology. While at Cambridge as a Reader, he was also fellow of Peterhouse. Milbank founded the radical orthodoxy movement. His work crosses disciplinary boundaries, integrating subjects such as systematic theology, social theory, ethics, aesthetics, philosophy, political theory and political theology. He first gained recognition after publishing Theology and Social Theory in 1990, which laid the theoretical foundations for the movement which later became known as radical orthodoxy. He further developed the radical orthodoxy agenda in several works, including The Word made Strange, Being Reconciled, Truth in Aquinas (with Catherine Pickstock), The Suspended Middle and Beyond Secular Order.