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Where Does Holy Teaching Leave Philosophy? Questions on Milbank's Aquinas
Author(s) -
Lash Nicholas
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
modern theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.144
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1468-0025
pISSN - 0266-7177
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0025.00107
Subject(s) - philosophy , metaphysics , analogy , reading (process) , prologue , epistemology , construal level theory , theology , literature , linguistics , sociology , social science , art
Focusing on two essays in John Milbank's The Word Made Strange , Lash argues that Milbank's claim that, for Aquinas, ‘the domain of metaphysics is not simply subordinate to, but completely evacuated by theology’ is unwarranted. First, Milbank's notion of metaphysics often lacks historical specificity. Second, Lash defends recent studies of Aquinas on analogy against Milbank's critique, and questions his construal of ens commune . Concluding sections challenge Milbank's reading of the Prologue to Aquinas's commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics , suggesting a more nuanced reading of the relations between philosophy (and, by implication, the whole sweep of the physical, moral and social sciences) and ‘holy teaching’.