Why was the crucifixion necessary ?
August 15, 2012 at 5:04 pm
(This post was last modified: August 15, 2012 at 5:05 pm by Categories+Sheaves.)
I'm trying to read "The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic?" (by Zizek; when a "communist" intellectual tries to rehabilitate Christian theodicity, something interesting has to be going on) and he's very keen on this idea of a suffering God. He's pretty big on G K Chesterton's reading of the book of Job: at the end, when God begins the rant/exchange "Where we're you when I laid the foundations of the earth..." God wasn't expressing a simple "stfu, you can't do what I do" but more "d00d, you think that was bad? You should see how horribly messed up everything looks from up here." I haven't read enough to trace out Zizek's logic, but the need for a suffering God is in there somewhere.
Also, Zizek somehow manages to argue that as an atheist, he's a better Christian than contemporary Christians. If only the writing wasn't so dense... (also: the preponderance of esoteric concepts/quotes)
So uh... It's an interesting angle you might want to check out, but I don't know how to articulate it properly.
Also, Zizek somehow manages to argue that as an atheist, he's a better Christian than contemporary Christians. If only the writing wasn't so dense... (also: the preponderance of esoteric concepts/quotes)
So uh... It's an interesting angle you might want to check out, but I don't know how to articulate it properly.
