Catholicism and the Crisis of Identity with John Milbank

In this interview, we sit down with renowned theologian and philosopher, John Milbank, to discuss his recent article in the Catholic Herald, "Taking Stock of the UK Riots: Catholicism and the Crisis of Anglo-Celtic Identity." Milbank delves into the underlying cultural and spiritual crises that he believes have contributed to the social unrest and identity struggles in the UK.

[@ThomasSimmons-u5x]

John's prescription of a Biblically founded education sounds a lot like my Lutheran, parochial education in St. Louis. I left the Church in my 20's to explore a secular identity. I'm back, as the alternative seems very much a great dead end.

[@Kitiwake]

Jesus never told His disciples to "write down everything". I grew up with a Catholic education which didn't emphasize own study of the bible. I did however, study the catechism. Biblical interpretation is already done for us by the church.

[@therealong]

How would I truly describe this, attempting to summarize it? 💨☁☁--- It was an hour of fumbling around reviewing a wide panorama of visions, where each vision envisioned a new vision of visions while slowly reshaping themselves by sliding and fading into new emerging visions, just as in a kind of fractal-shaped ad lib zooming sequence without control of its speed and/or direction. And when I was about to decide to pause it, it had suddenly ended by itself. --- 💨☁☁ And no, sorry, I would not be able to summarize it otherwise, as no final vision was ever envisioned.

[@russellmiles2861]

These middle men grew up in the era of Heavy Metal, ACDC, First Lady Nancy Regan attending HAIR as a AIDS benefit, performer such George Hearn singing I Am What I, the ebbing of the Cold War, Cindy Sherman stunning photography, Punk Rock, Dave Allen, Deng Xiaoping’s re-emerging China, novels such as Enders Game, Colour Purple. But they hardly ever reference such art, music or social movements of their own youth. I am wondering if Apologist are not so much out of contact with young people of today, but never connected to their own peers.

[@VerkhovenskyStepan]

That was not art, it was marketing. Art was eradicated following the world wars and replaced with torpefying entertainment. What does such garbage have to do with theology? Your generation abandoned centuries of life-giving art for death-dealing entertainment-and here you are still pushing your Mammonist hedonism.

[@ghostlyimageoffear6210]

Can't continue to watch. This guy must live in a bubble.