A militant Marxist atheist and a "Radical Orthodox" Christian
theologian square off on everything from the meaning of theology
and Christ to the war machine of corporate mafia. "What matters is
not so much that Zizek is endorsing a demythologized, disenchanted
Christianity without transcendence, as that he is offering in the
end (despite what he sometimes claims) a heterodox version of
Christian belief."-John Milbank "To put it even more bluntly, my
claim is that it is Milbank who is effectively guilty of
heterodoxy, ultimately of a regression to paganism: in my atheism,
I am more Christian than Milbank."-Slavoj Zizek In this corner,
philosopher Slavoj Zizek, a militant atheist who represents the
critical-materialist stance against religion's illusions; in the
other corner, "Radical Orthodox" theologian John Milbank, an
influential and provocative thinker who argues that theology is the
only foundation upon which knowledge, politics, and ethics can
stand. In The Monstrosity of Christ, Zizek and Milbank go head to
head for three rounds, employing an impressive arsenal of moves to
advance their positions and press their respective advantages. By
the closing bell, they have not only proven themselves worthy
adversaries, they have shown that faith and reason are not simply
and intractably opposed. Zizek has long been interested in the
emancipatory potential offered by Christian theology. And Milbank,
seeing global capitalism as the new century's greatest ethical
challenge, has pushed his own ontology in more political and
materialist directions. Their debate in The Monstrosity of Christ
concerns the future of religion, secularity, and political hope in
light of a monsterful event-God becoming human. For the first time
since Zizek's turn toward theology, we have a true debate between
an atheist and a theologian about the very meaning of theology,
Christ, the Church, the Holy Ghost, Universality, and the
foundations of logic. The result goes far beyond the popularized
atheist/theist point/counterpoint of recent books by Christopher
Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and others. Zizek begins, and Milbank
answers, countering dialectics with "paradox." The debate centers
on the nature of and relation between paradox and parallax, between
analogy and dialectics, between transcendent glory and liberation.
Slavoj Zizek is a philosopher and cultural critic. He has published
over thirty books, including Looking Awry, The Puppet and the
Dwarf, and The Parallax View (these three published by the MIT
Press). John Milbank is an influential Christian theologian and the
author of Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason and
other books. Creston Davis, who conceived of this encounter,
studied under both Zizek and Milbank.
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