Leicester: lecture on 'world's most persecuted religion'

Professor John Milbank

John Milbank, Professor of Religion, Politics and Ethics at the University of Nottingham, will be asking 'Is there a place for Christian Apologetics?' at the University of Leicester Chaplaincy Lecture 2011, on Wednesday 15th June, 5.30pm in Lecture Theatre 3, Ken Edwards Building on the main campus.

He explains: "Christianity is the world's largest religion, yet of all religions is now globally the most persecuted. Meanwhile in this country it is under cultural threat from a new militant atheism and a shallow and ignorant metropolitian secular consensus.

"How should it respond -- how can it explain why it is in fact intellectually as well as emotionally compelling? How can it offer an 'apologetics' for itself and for its past history without either sounding merely 'apologetic' or defending the indefensible?"

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be followed by an opportunity for questions, and refreshments will be served.

Professor Milbank was Educated at Oxford, Cambridge (under Dr Rowan Williams) and Birmingham. He has taught at the Universities of Lancaster and Cambridge in the UK and Virginia, USA.

His publications include The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialetics (with Slavoj Zizek, MIT Press, 2009). He is one of the founders of the 'radical orthodoxy' movement, which looks to a revival of more traditional doctrines.