Future Directions for Political Theology at the Time of the Anthropocene
Key Details
This is a recording of a lecture by Professor John Milbank, delivered as part of the LSRI Research Seminar Series - a series of multidisciplinary seminars analysing intellectual developments of significance for theology, philosophy, and ethics.
About
Professor Milbank offers thoughts on the challenges faced by contemporary political theology. He makes a special reference to recent work within Continental philosophy that emphasises (what Bruno Latour calls) the “new regime of planetary politics” that will be required at the time of the Anthropocene and in the wake of the fundamental re-orientation imposed upon us all by the global pandemic.
About the Speaker
John Milbank is an Anglican Christian theologian. He was the Research Professor of Religion, Politics and Ethics at the University of Nottingham, where he also directed the Centre of Theology and Philosophy. He previously taught at the University of Virginia, at the University of Cambridge and at the University of Lancaster. He is known as the founder of the movement known as Radical Orthodoxy, which has attracted international attention in both religion and politics. He is also one of the founding inaugurators of the Blue Labour movement. His work crosses disciplinary boundaries, integrating subjects such as systematic theology, social theory, ethics, aesthetics, philosophy, political theory and political theology.