Radical Tragedy, Subversive Comedy: On Milbank, Žižek, and The Monstrosity of Christ
Paul Jaussen reviews Žižek and Milbank’s THE MONSTROSITY OF CHRIST.
Paul Jaussen reviews Žižek and Milbank’s THE MONSTROSITY OF CHRIST.
In this essay, Ben Suriano responds to Jon Stanley’s claim that there are at least two (very biblical) ways that every Christian would do well to “quite rightly pass for an atheist.” The essay argues that every Christian should rather “quite rightly pass for a Christian” because the predominant form of atheism is in fact the core metaphysical and ontological assumption that makes possible the imperial logics operative in both the Roman and modern order.
In this essay, Jon Stanley looks at the Christian life as transcending the categories of atheism and theism.