1. Alasdair John Milbank was born on 23 October 1952 and is an English Anglo-Catholic theologian and is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham, where he is President of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy.
John Milbank is chairman of the trustees of the think tank ResPublica.
John Milbank first gained recognition after publishing Theology and Social Theory in 1990, which laid the theoretical foundations for the movement which later became known as radical orthodoxy.
John Milbank was awarded a postgraduate certificate in theology from Westcott House, Cambridge.
John Milbank then received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Birmingham.
John Milbank was born in Kings Langley, England, on 23 October 1952.
John Milbank married Alison Milbank, a lecturer at the University of Nottingham, in 1978.
John Milbank argues that the social sciences are a product of the modern ethos of secularism, which stems from an ontology of violence.
John Milbank is sometimes described as a metaphysical theologian in that he is concerned with establishing a Christian trinitarian ontology.
Paul Hedges of in 2014 wrote in Open Theology that John Milbank's "theology is at best unhelpful, and at worst potentially dangerous".
John Milbank has written against "legislative change" to legalize same-sex marriage, and against assisted suicide.