Žižek Reading Bonhoeffer Towards a Radical Critical Theology /

• Main Author: Koltaj, Bojan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Radical Theologies and Philosophies
• Subjects: Critical theory.; Theology.; World War, 1939-1945.; Critical Theory.; Christian Theology.; History of World War II and the Holocaust.
• Physical Description: XIII, 191 p. 1 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783030260941
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-26094-1

This book critically examines Bonhoeffer's social theology in Sanctorum Communio from the perspective of Žižek's theological materialism. Specifically, it refers to Žižek's struggling universality of abandonment and its ethic of indifference in consideration of Bonhoeffer's transcendental personalist community of saints and its ethic of universal love. As such, it represents an attempt to reflect on the content, act, and implication of theological thought without presuppositions and an argument for the necessity of such an approach-a radical approach that is true to theology's critical character of challenging narratives and revealing exceptions in search of truth.