Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 i ek 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 i ek In this corner philosopher Slavoj i ek 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 i ek 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. i ek 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 i ek'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. i ek 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 i ek 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 i ek and Milbank.
Title: The Monstrosity Of Christ Paradox Or Dialectic?
Author(s): Milbank John (Burgage Hill Cottage), Creston Davis
Publisher: Mit Press Ltd
Barcode: 9780262516204
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 2/25/2011
Series: Short Circuits
Category: Agnosticism & Atheism