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Originally Posted by JohnOwen007  Dear Jacob,
Thanks so much for your review and interesting comments. I think Milbank's connection of the Reformation and Modernity is a long shot. The reformers were protected from modernity whilst they held to the sinfulness of the human heart. It was this that modernity shunned.
Moreover, as Heiko Oberman has shown, Scotus introduced a more personal understanding of reality (and construal of Exod. 3:14), that helped pave the way for Luther's discovery. It's this personal framework that is conspicuously absent from RO with their return to participation (and hence being).
God bless. |
I think so. Milbank paints with huge brushes. I think he was saying, and I don't have the erudition to prove or refute it, that voluntarism underpinned Luther's theology. This was actually one of the more confusing chapters. I didn't read it carefull.
The reference to personal construals is quite interesting.