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John Milbank

John Milbank is a theologian and philosopher. He is a co-founder of the Radical Orthodoxy movement and was previously director of the centre of theology and philosophy at the University of Nottingham.

July 2013

  • Boys play football in a run-down street with boarded up houses in the Govan area of Glasgow

    Cif belief
    The church offers a holistic solution to child poverty

    John Milbank
    John Milbank: This dire situation has to be addressed through the social dimension, not through top-down, impersonal tinkering

November 2010

  • Cif belief
    Labour is right to be cautious about knocking workfare plans

    John Milbank
    John Milbank: If one adopts an older and more Christian attitude, 'the poor' are part of us – which leads to ambivalence about workfare

January 2010

  • No equality in opportunity

    Phillip Blond and John Milbank
    Phillip Blond and John Milbank: By synthesising old Tory and traditional left ideas a genuinely egalitarian society can be achieved

December 2009

  • Money blog
    For feminism and family

    John Milbank
    John Milbank: We need a radical feminism that ends women's enslavement and allows them to be neither subordinate nor men writ large