RT Article
T1 Understandings of nature and grace in John Milbank and Thomas Aquinas
JF Scottish journal of theology
VO 62
IS 3
SP 347
OP 361
A1 Mawson, Michael
LA English
YR 2009
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785578650
AB John Milbank is one of the most recent and arguably most radical proponents of an understanding of nature as graced. This article critically examines Milbank's understanding of nature and grace, specifically as elaborated within his reading of Thomas Aquinas. In the first part I will outline Aquinas's most direct discussions of nature and grace in the Summa Theologica, drawing attention to several central, albeit subtle, distinctions that these contain. In the second and third parts, I will examine Milbank's reading of Aquinas in Truth in Aquinas, and examine whether it adequately reflects and negotiates Aquinas's distinctions. On this basis I will argue Milbank's reading, while drawing attention to some important and often neglected areas of Aquinas's thought, ultimately remains limited.
DO 10.1017/S0036930609004773