A PANENTHEIST READING OF JOHN MILBANK |
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Authors: | AMENE MIR |
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Affiliation: | 9 Mylne Close, Upper Mall, London W6 9TE, UK |
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Abstract: | John Milbank contends that modernity's attempt to establish an autonomous and secular realm for finite reality derives from a theological error originating primarily in the thought of Duns Scotus. Here both divine and finite reality share in a transcendental univocal Being that understands the divine as merely an extrinsic presence. Addressing this error, Milbank seeks to return to a participatory orthodoxy. This article will argue that in such a return Milbank qualifies in important ways the classical understanding of God's relation to creation and the divine attributes, allowing for a panentheist reading of his work that is both asymmetrical and dipolar in character. |
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