Alison Milbank
Alison Milbank (Reverend Canon Professor) is Professor of Theology and Literature Department of Theology and Religious Studies University of Nottingham. Prof. Milbank studied English Literature at the University of Cambridge and took her doctorate at Lancaster University. She was John Rylands Research Fellow at the University of Manchester and has taught at Middlesex and Cambridge Universities as well as the University of Virginia. She is now Professor of Theology and literature at the University of Nottingham and an Anglican priest, attached to Southwell Minster, where she is priest vicar and Canon Theologian. Her research covers many aspects of religion and culture, as well as imaginative apologetics and the ecclesiology and practice of the Church of England.
Links to posts and programs featuring Alison Milbank:
- Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 99 — FEATURED GUESTS: Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Paul A. Rahe, James L. Nolan, Jr., Andrew J. Cherlin, Dale Keuhne, and Alison Milbank
- Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 148 — FEATURED GUESTS:
Steven D. Smith, Willem Vanderburg, Jeffrey Bilbro, Emma Mason, Alison Milbank, and Timothy Larsen
- How fantasy restores the world — In this 2019 lecture, Alison Milbank shows how fantasy can help restore to us a vision of human flourishing that counters the atomization and meaninglessness of modern life. (43 minutes)
- Chesterton and Tolkien as theologians — Alison Milbank discusses how both Chesterton and Tolkien restore reason to fantasy and help us to see things as we were meant to see them. (20 minutes)
- Alison Milbank: Imaginative Apologetics beyond C. S. Lewis — Alison Milbank offers an approach to defending the Christian faith that restores the imagination as a faculty inseparable from reason. (61 minutes)
