John Milbank is an emeritus professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham, where he is also president of the Center of Theology and Philosophy. His many books include Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason and The Politics of Virtue: Post-Liberalism and the Human Future, with Adrian Pabst.
We are witnessing the ultimate emergence of tensions latent in the very foundations of the modern.