1. John Milbank, The Word Made Strange: Theology, Language, Culture (Wiley-Blackwell, 1997), 250.
2. Jennifer A. Herdt, “The Endless Construction of Charity: On Milbank’s Critique of Political Economy,” Journal of Religious Ethics 32, no. 2 (2004): 301; I am indebted to Jennifer A. Herdt for the suggested alternative title as a clever play on Blumenberg, The Legitimacy of the Modern Age.
3. John Milbank “Without Heaven There Is Only Hell on Earth: 15 Verdicts on Zizek’s Response,” Political Theology 11, no. 1 (2009): 127.
4. John D. Caputo, On Religion (London, 2001), 62
5. Ingolf Dalferth U. “Post-Secular Society: Christianity and the Dialectics of the Secular,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 78, no. 2(2010): 317; Beckford “SSSR Presidential Address Public Religions and the Postsecular,” 8.