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Letters from the Edge of Elfland

John Milbank

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February 2019

February 21, 2019

To the Full English Breakfast: An Exhortation and Sonnet

Ordinary Time 21 February 2019 The Edge of Elfland Manchester, New Hampshire Dearest Readers, Lately,...

August 2016

August 05, 2016

John Milbank on Augustine and Nicholas of Cusa

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time St. Oswald's Day The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

May 2016

May 07, 2016

An Answer to the Call for the Radical Catholic Reimagination of Everything

David Russell Mosley Eastertide Octave of the Ascension The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

August 2015

August 20, 2015

Angels and Demons: On the Cosmic Reality and Theological Importance of Angelology and Demonology

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time Feast of St Bernard The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New...

April 2015

April 23, 2015

A Brief Theology of Poetry and Fantasy: A Thesis Extract

David Russell Mosley Eastertide St George's Day The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire, Dear...

March 2015

March 04, 2015

Links and videos I Normally Would Have Posted on Facebook: III

David Russell Mosley Lent 4 March 2014 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear Friends and...

July 2014

July 21, 2014

A Vision of Angels: Given on the Fifth Sunday after Trinity

David Russell Mosley 21 July 2014 On the Edge of Elfland Beeston, Nottinghamshire Dear Friends...

April 2014

April 04, 2014

Creativity as Deifying: On Fairy Stories, Part II

David Russell Mosley   Lent 4 April 2014 On the Edge of Elfland Beeston, Nottinghamshire...

April 03, 2014

Creativity as Deifying: An Extract from My Thesis Part I

David Russell Mosley Lent 3 April 2014 On the Edge of Elfland Beeston, Nottinghamshire Dear...

February 2014

February 13, 2014

The Return of Arthur: A Conversation with John Milbank and C. S. Lewis

David Russell Mosley   13 February 2014 On the Edge of Elfland Beeston, Nottinghamshire Dear...

February 11, 2014

Mini-Book Review: Beyond Secular Order by John Milbank

David Russell Mosley 11 February 2014 On the Edge of Elfland Beeston, Nottinghamshire Dear Friends...

February 10, 2014

Mini-Book Review: The Legend of Death by John Milbank

David Russell Mosley   10 February 2014 On the Edge of Elfland Beeston, Nottinghamshire Dear...

December 2013

December 10, 2013

My 3 Books (or The Post Where I Steal Ideas from The Theology Studio)

David Russell Mosley Second Week of Advent 10 December 2013 On the Edge of Elfland...

August 2013

August 05, 2013

'Being Reconciled' by John Milbank: Mini Book Review

David Russell Mosley     Festival of King Oswald 5 August 2013 Beeston, Nottinghamshire Dear...

July 2013

July 10, 2013

Faeriean Metaphysics: Seeing the Soul and the Perilous Realm

Dear Friends and Family, Several times now on this blog have I written about Faerie and...

June 2013

June 28, 2013

Centre of Theology and Philosophy Soul Conference: Reflections

Dear Friends and Family, Well, I'm up, if not at 'em, this morning and back...

June 24, 2013

Preparing for a Conference: Centre for Theology and Philosophy Conference on the Soul

Dear Friends and Family, This week I and several of my colleagues here at the...

June 13, 2013

Celebrating Theology Faculty from the University of Nottingham: Conor Cunningham

Dear Friends and Family, Today I want to introduce you to someone who I have...

June 07, 2013

Celebrating Theology Faculty from the University of Nottingham: John Milbank

Dear Friends and Family, John Milbank is perhaps the most well-known member of our faculty...

May 2013

May 28, 2013

Celebrating Theology Faculty from the University of Nottingham: Simon Oliver

Dear Friends and Family, I've been at the University of Nottingham for nearly two years...

May 04, 2013

What is Radical Orthodoxy?

Dear Friends and Family When I first came here to Nottingham I had never heard...

April 2013

April 03, 2013

A Day in the Life of a PhD in Theology Part 2: The Differences between and American and British PhD

Dear Friends and Family, It dawned on me the other day that my post describing...

March 2013

March 14, 2013

Is Evolution Anti-Christian? Conor Cunningham, Charles Darwin, and the God who Creates

Dear Friends and Family, While there is even bigger news I would like to discuss...

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