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Zusammenfassung Offers an investigation into the Christological ideas of three contemporary thinkers: Slavoj Zizek, Gianni Vattimo and Rene Girard, focussing on the topics of the relation between transcendence and the event of the Incarnation on the one hand, and the topic of the uniqueness of Christianity on the other. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Question of Christology after the Death of God 1. Gianni Vattimo 1.1. The Background of Vattimo's Christology: How the Return of Religion Became Possible (Nietzsche, Heidegger)1.2. Vattimo's Christology: Kenosis and Caritas2. Slavoj Žižek2.1. The Background of Žižek's Christology: Reading Hegel's Christology with Lacan2.2. Žižek's Christology2.2.1. The Deadlock of the Sacrificial Interpretation of Christ's Death on the Cross2.2.2. From God as 'Wholly Other Thing' to God as 'Barely Nothing'2.2.3. The Coming of Christ, the Death of the Divine Thing 2.2.4. The Crucified Christ, the Ultimate objet petit a3. René Girard3.1. The Background of Girard's Christology: Mimesis and the Scapegoating Mechanism3.2. Girard's Christology3.2.1. Girard's Account of the Christ Event 3.2.2. Girard vs. Nietzsche: Dionysus and the Crucified One - on the impact of the Christ Event in World History4. Evaluations & Confrontations4.1. Vattimo's Christology, a Return of 'God Is Dead'-Theology4.2. Girard vs. Vattimo4.3. The Shared Inspiration of Žižek and Girard4.4. The Fate of Transcendence in the Work of Žižek4.5. Girard vs. Žižek 4.6. General Conclusion: On the Transcendence of Love and the Uniqueness of Christianity
