Word: milbank
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...hallmark of modern academia. But church and campus have never seemed as estranged as they have since the advent of postmodernism, the notion that there is no universal truth, merely competing "narratives" jockeying eternally for supremacy. That is, until 1990, when a young British professor named John Milbank pioneered what The Chronicle of Higher Education has suggested may be the "biggest development in theology since Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door...
...Milbank opted to cite (if not love) his enemy. By exposing the nihilism of secular thought, he writes, postmodernism freed Christian theology from the need to "measure up to...standards of scientific truth and normative rationality." Thus unburdened, he suggests, it enjoys several advantages over secular competitors. Long before postmodernism, Christianity accepted unknowableness as part of God's nature. The Christian "story" is dense with associations and can be applied universally. In fact, he writes, its central dynamic of ever unfolding divine love places it outside--and above--postmodernism's conviction that each contending world view is rooted...
...Milbank's conclusion: Christian theology can now reclaim its medieval position as "queen of the sciences," before which disciplines like sociology, philosophy and economics must bow down. He and colleagues dubbed their movement "radical orthodoxy" and began a giddy exploration of theology's vast, recovered social responsibilities...
...come home, Dana Milbank...
...There are 15,000 reporters here for the Republican National Convention. Tom DeLay's goal is to avoid them all." -Dana Milbank, WP (who else...