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Born 23 October 1952, he is an English Anglican theologian and professor emeritus in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham, where he is chairman of the Centre for Theology and Philosophy. Milbank previously taught at the University of Virginia and before that at Cambridge University and Lancaster University. He is also chairman of the trustees of the think tank ResPublica.
He founded the Radical Orthodox 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 foundation for the movement that later became known as Radical Orthodoxy. In recent years he has co-authored three books with philosopher Slavoj Žižek and Creston Davis, entitled Theology and the Political: The New Debate (2005), The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic (2009) and Paul’s New Moment: Continental Philosophy and the Future of Christian Theology (2010). Milbank gave the Stanton Lectures in Cambridge in 2011. In Cambridge with the ROR he organised the Conference on New Trinitarian Ontologies (2019).
