Dr Alison Milbank - Full Interview

A British Anglican Priest and literary scholar specialising in religion and culture, Dr Alison Milbank is Professor of Literature and Theology at the University of Nottingham, and Canon Theologian of Southwell Minster.
Professor Milbank's research and teaching focuses on the relation of religion and culture in the post-Enlightenment period, with particular interest in non-realist literary and artistic expression.
Her magnum opus, God & The Gothic: Religion, Romance, & Reality in the English Literary Tradition was published in 2019. She is currently undertaking research on specifically Anglican developments towards a theology of nature from the seventeenth to twentieth century.
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Timed Interview Summary
0:00 Childhood in post WWII Portsmouth, the book of Common Prayer, Anglo-Irish family life, Gothic fantasy and theology
15:00 Making our world strange and Divine: Arabian Nights, classical books, Vampires, Harry Potter and Tolkien
36:36. Religious and academic journeys: Cambridge University, an academic crisis, Dante and ordination.
44:30 Christian mission and socialism: Stewart Headlam and the Guild of St Matthew, Percy Dearmer, Conrad Noel and the Christian Socialist League and Catholic Crusade, Scott-Holland and the Christian Social Union. Guild socialism, Catholic distributism. F.D. Maurice, G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Maurice Reckitt and the Christendom Group
1:10:40. For the Parish & Fresh Expressions: Form and content in Christian practice. The danger of modern evangelisation that is culturally relevant without an alertness to what is being smuggled in.
1:21:00 Canon Theologian: Adult education, conferences, marriages, baptisms and children's work. Also Head of Department and Professor of Theology at the University of Nottingham. The duality of being a priest and an academic tutor.
1:24:53. Discussion of the gaps in current spiritual formation in Britain: Feeding on the riches of Christian belief: art, music, literature, ethics and theology. There needs to be more sense of God’s beauty and mystery.

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