Beyond Secular Order

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"Readers familiar with Milbank's work will appreciate his focused prose while extensive footnotes referencing his previous work provide background information for others." (Religious Studies Review, 7 December 2015) "...Interesting, creative, suggestive, and beguiling... [Milbank] is fearless in his cross-examination of modern secularist assumptions about the autonomy of philosophy and its much-heralded liberation from theology's apron strings." (Church Times, 24 August 2015)"Such a vision is partial and imperfect, but it's a signpost that, as we continue to watch modern metaphysics and politics develop, will be an important critical and constructive dialogue partner for a long time to come." (Mockingbird, 14 February 2014) "Here, in Beyond Secular Order, he offers a more concise systematic analysis focusing on the ontological and political dimensions of modernity. He lays bare the deep connections between metaphysical assumptions, on the one hand, and political and social implications, on the other." (SOPHIA 2015) "Exploratory, daring, irritating and illuminating byturns, John Milbank cannot be compared with anything else in theintellectual life of our times ... It will become the cardinaltext for interpreting him and arguing with him." --Oliver O'Donovan, University ofEdinburgh "New and exciting avenues of exploration open again andagain in this richly suggestive work." --Charles Taylor, McGill University "In a careful and thorough canvassing of both ontologicaland political consequences, John Milbank displays the peculiardensity which participation bestows on reality, by contrast withthe binary oppositions latent in many current alternatives. Bytracing everything to a free creator, Milbank confirms GeorgeSteiner's prescient thesis in Real Presences, as wellas offers extensive confirmation of his own probing inquiries sinceThelogy and Social Theory. Daunting in its scope yet utterlyfocused in what it delivers." --David Burrell, University of Notre Dame