Christ in Postmodern Philosophy Gianni Vattimo, Rene Girard, and Slavoj Zizek
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Biografisk notat
Dr Frederiek Depoortere is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) at the Faculty of Theology, K.U.Leuven (Belgium) and a member of the research group 'Theology in a Postmodern Context'.Some of Europe's top philosophers of religion put forward great new ideas based on the works of Levinas, Derrida, Lacan, Kant and others, to explore divergent philosophical concepts around Christology, incarnation and the uniqueness of Christ, and therefore Christianity, in a very different way.
Publishing News, 2008
Mention -Chronicle of Higher Education, March 13, 2009
The book lucidly fulfils its dual aims, articulating the prospects for an understanding of the Incarnation that does not divest or empty the doctrine of the Trinity whilst using the postmodern philosophers as grist on the question of the particularly Christian faith. In addition to the well-referenced, cogently-structured main project, Depoortere has furnished us with a set of beginning guides on some of the religious coordinates of three important, thought contested, social theorists.
Theological Book Review, Vol. 21, No.2
Christ in Postmodern Philosophy not only serves as an excellent primer for those who might be relatively new to the conversation about Christ in contemporary continental though, but also offers a set of insights and intuitions which will prove fruitful for further reflection upon Christ's uniqueness.
The Thomist
Both titles are examples of academically yet clear and readable studies.
Bijdragen, International Journal in Philosophy and Theology 71 (1)
Depoortere... is to be congratulated on a concise and clear introduction to the thought of three important contemporary thinkers, Vattimo, Girard and Zizek.
Journal of Reformed Theology 4
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 Caritas
2. Slavoj Žižek
2.1. The Background of Žižek's Christology: Reading Hegel's Christology with Lacan
2.2. Žižek's Christology
2.2.1. The Deadlock of the Sacrificial Interpretation of Christ's Death on the Cross
2.2.2. 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 a
3. René Girard
3.1. The Background of Girard's Christology: Mimesis and the Scapegoating Mechanism
3.2. Girard's Christology
3.2.1. 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 History
4. Evaluations & Confrontations
4.1. Vattimo's Christology, a Return of 'God Is Dead'-Theology
4.2. Girard vs. Vattimo
4.3. The Shared Inspiration of Žižek and Girard
4.4. The Fate of Transcendence in the Work of Žižek
4.5. Girard vs. Žižek
4.6. General Conclusion: On the Transcendence of Love and the Uniqueness of Christianity