Zizek Reading Bonhoeffer - Towards a Radical Critical Theology

This book critically examines Bonhoeffer's social theology in Sanctorum Communio from the perspective of Zizek's theological materialism. Specifically, it refers to Zizek'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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Bojan Koltaj is an associate lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Kent, UK. 

Product details

• Authors: Bojan Koltaj
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2020
• EAN: 9783030260965
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3026096-5
• No. of pages: 191
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 12 mm x 209 mm
• Illustrations: XIII, 191 p. 1 illus.
• Series: Radical Theologies and Philosophies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > 20th and 21st centuries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day