%0 Journal Article
%T A Critical Assessment of John Milbank¡¯s Christology
%A N Vorster
%J Acta Theologica
%D 2012
%I 
%X John Milbank is well known for attempting to develop a participatory theology. This article specifically assesses his Christology. The first section provides a synthetic explication of his Christology by focussing on his notions of participation, paradox, poesis, incarnation, the cross, and ecclesiology. The second section provides a critical assessment. The central argument is that Milbank¡¯s Christology is inadequate in a participatory sense, because it lacks particularity and personal relationality. This inadequacy is probably due to the way in which he fuses Neo-Platonism and postmodern lingualism in order to construct his ontology. In order to maintain his non-violent and poetic ontological position, Milbank needs to revert to a general, ¡°high¡± and impersonal Christology, and disregard ¡°low¡± Christology. However, if one¡¯s ontological construction leads to a detached Christology, which does not adequately affirm the central notion of one¡¯s theology, serious doubts arise concerning the legitimacy of one¡¯s method.
%U http://www.ajol.info/index.php/actat/article/view/86018