john milbank Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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For those who have enjoyed Andrea Wulf’s Magnificent Rebels I recommend Thomas F. O’Meara OP’s Romantic Idealism and Roman Catholicism (1982) for further insight into the religious dimension.

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Feminism favours reality, which our contemporary ‘progressive’ culture seeks profitably to evade. Mary Harrington’s Feminism against Progress is published today. https://t.co/7mcQb0ZWvC

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@irumyuui @ByzCat See my Beyond Secular Order and Catherine Pickstock’s Aspects of Truth which I entirely agree with. Yes of course we reject ‘representation’ for an ‘identity’ account of truth in keeping with Aquinas. Naturally we do not ultimately agree with Rorty’s pragmatic nihilism.

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The Mystery of Cloomber by Arthur Conan Doyle is like a real supernatural imperial gothic counterpart to the explained gothic supernatural of The Hound of The Baskervilles. Both involve a mire. MofC set in Galloway with Buddhist yogis revenge for imperial misdeeds. Excellent.

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A marvellous article. Universal salvation is not a reprieve. Just the opposite. In fact to be stuck in endless suffering going nowhere is a form of unacceptable reprieve. George MacDonald gets this in his fantasy novel Lilith, as this piece explains. https://t.co/SqW6aL8IfD

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‘…whatever may be alleged by the sceptic and the scorner, to each duty performed there is assigned a degree of mental peace and high consciousness of honourable exertion, corresponding to the difficulty of the task accomplished.’ (Sir Walter Scott, from The Pirate.)

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Nor is the appeal to Platonic archetypes any weaker in Schelling than in Goethe. Maybe von B liked Goethe’s ambivalent suspicion of the Promethean — but Goethe located this more in rationalistic economism than in the ambitions of creative poetry. See Faust Part II.

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@Phillip_Blond In New York and Chicago yes — where the skyscrapers remain mainly gothic. But the London skyline is an utter mess and tall buildings are incompatible with its ancient character as much as they would be in Paris. We need to see the Baroquespires again, not the Towers of Babel.

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@KingCrawa @PoeticCiaran Most Methodists lower middle or upper working class apart from some Primitives. And Methodism of course Arminian and so inherently adrift from the main line of the Reformation legacy. Charles Wesley’s hymns are often very Catholic in their theology.

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@TinaBeattie @ProfDNgong No I don’t because my modest observation just boringly and humanly happens to be true. It’s you who want to introduce irrelevant racial and gender considerations. As for sallying forth more, see my retweet of Bob Davis’s citation of Chesterton’s *Heretics*. I should travel less.

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