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Record Nr.

UNINA9910349548003321

Autore

Koltaj Bojan

Titolo

Žižek Reading Bonhoeffer : Towards a Radical Critical Theology / / by Bojan Koltaj

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-26094-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 pages)

Collana

Radical Theologies and Philosophies, , 2634-663X

Disciplina

199.4973

230.044092

Soggetti

Critical theory

Theology

World War, 1939-1945

Critical Theory

Christian Theology

History of World War II and the Holocaust

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Žižek’s Political Theology -- Chapter 3: Bonhoeffer's Social Theology -- Chapter 4: Conclusion: Radical Critical Theology. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book critically examines Bonhoeffer’s social theology in Sanctorum Communio from the perspective of Žižek’s theological materialism. Specifically, it refers to Žižek’s struggling universality of abandonment and its ethic of indifference in consideration of Bonhoeffer’s transcendental personalist community of saints and its ethic of universal love. As such, it represents an attempt to reflect on the content, act, and implication of theological thought without presuppositions and an argument for the necessity of such an approach—a radical approach that is true to theology’s critical character of challenging narratives and revealing exceptions in search of truth.