{"id":3632,"date":"2006-05-25T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3632"},"modified":"2006-05-25T18:37:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T18:37:00","slug":"a-john-milbank-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3632","title":{"rendered":"A John Milbank paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Milbank is one of the best contemporary British theologians. I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theologyphilosophycentre.co.uk\/papers\/Milbank_Glissando.doc\">this paper<\/a> today, whilst looking for something else, and it&#8217;s great. I particularly liked this: &#8220;This \u2018designing\u2019 God is not the God of classical Catholic theology because his causality operates on the same plane as finite causes even though it is all powerful. One can trace the beginnings of such a way of conceiving of divine causality as far back as Bonaventure and Duns Scotus, but it displaced an older and essentially neoplatonic way of looking at things, still holding good for Aquinas, in which the divine cause was a higher \u2018influence\u2019 which \u2018flowed into \u2019 finite levels of causation, entirely shaping them from within, but not \u2018influencing\u2019 them or conditioning them on the same plane of univocal being, as a less metaphorically-rooted meaning of \u2018influence\u2019 tends to imply. Put briefly, the ontological versus ontic difference between primary and secondary causality was lost sight of.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was the &#8216;put briefly&#8217; bit that really made me smile&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Just for the avoidance of ambiguity, I too find Milbank difficult to read. I was saying much the same thing <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/god-is-not-pixel.html\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Milbank is one of the best contemporary British theologians. I came across this paper today, whilst looking for something else, and it&#8217;s great. I particularly liked this: &#8220;This \u2018designing\u2019 God is not the God of classical Catholic theology because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3632\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-WA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}