Category Archives: milbank

Dead-Africa, Global Charity, and Neo-Colonial Power

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Tim McGee

The Theology and Critical Race theory facebook page recently posted this article on how, despite improvements, Western media and NGO’s still portray Africa as desperately impoverished, backwards, and teetering on the verge of death and collapse. The article considers various … Continue reading →

Posted in colonialism, death, Edward Said, milbank, politics | 2 Comments

Theology, Beauty, and Race (a couple thoughts)

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Tim McGee

I’m married to an artist, find myself in the company of various artists, and have a few friends studying theology and the arts. One of these friends recently posted a humble 9.5 theses on beauty–a mere tenth of Luther’s audacious … Continue reading →

Posted in art, bonhoeffer, colonialism, Cornel West, ecclesiology, Edward Said, fanon, milbank | 6 Comments

The Promise and Failure of "the Secular"

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Tim McGee

One of the strange features in the Milbank article discussed in my previous post was his mention of the necessity to physically defend “the physical space” of the church “in the name of secular justice.”  This surprising endorsement of “the … Continue reading →

Posted in colonialism, milbank, missions, religion, secularity | 1 Comment

A Violent Being: Milbank and Fanon Between Love and Power

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Tim McGee

“However, this means that the realm of total mutual exposure, the realm of weakness within which “all defences are down,” might ironically be seen as requiring defence against an exterior which refuses this exposedness.”  John Milbank, “Power is necessary for … Continue reading →

Posted in ethics, fanon, milbank, race, violence | 4 Comments

On Milbank’s Imperialist Refusal of Difference

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Tim McGee

From the AUFS blog I saw that John Milbank has recently attributed the problems of “political Islam” to “the lamentably premature collapse of the Western colonial empires (as a consequence of the European wars);”  This should surprise no one, as … Continue reading →

Posted in ecclesiology, ethics, milbank, missions | 7 Comments

Telling History: Barth and Foucault

Posted on May 6, 2009 by Tim McGee

“History is a synthetic work of art.  History emerges from what has occurred, and has one single, unified theme.”  Karl Barth, __The Epistle to the Romans__, 146. People generally assume that “postmodernism,” whatever else it might be, is a suspicion … Continue reading →

Posted in barth, foucault, genealogy, history, milbank | 15 Comments