John Milbank Quotes

• Our own self-awareness arises not in the Cartesian cogito, but in our finding ourselves in relation to other beings in whom we both actively recognize and do not recognize our own subjectivity, in an inexhaustible dialectic.

  John Milbank

  Self, Subjectivity, Awareness

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• Christian theology is a hair's breadth away from nihilism.

  John Milbank

  Christian, Hair, Nihilism

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• Once one has realized, following the great English literary visionaries William Shakespeare and Thomas Nashe, that sexual puritanism, political disciplinarianism, and abuse of the poor are the result of the refusal of true Christianity ... one is led to articulate a more incarnate, more participatory, more aesthetic, more erotic, more socialized, even a more 'Platonic' Christianity.

  John Milbank

  Political, Erotic, Abuse

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