![]() Though my own perspective is that Žižek’s thought, particularly his religious thinking, will stand the test of time, we will only set about the business of making introductions here-the who, what, why, and so forth. The popularity of Slavoj Žižek in both academic and pop cultural circles only raises the question of his lasting impact. Even the most casual of armchair theologians will be rightly wary enough of intellectual trends that announce themselves on the theological scene-“Finally, a new kind of Christianity!”-only to recede back into the ether, often leaving the less than faint impression that a good deal of time had been wasted and attention misdirected. ![]() My present intentions in writing about Žižek and his thinking about Jesus are pure, I hope, aiming only to pose the question whether or not Žižek deserves to blip the Catholic radar. ![]() Žižek is perhaps one of the world’s most important leftist intellectuals, an ardent Marxist, resolute materialist, committed atheist, and, paradoxically, a “faithful Christian,” though Žižek himself will provide the terms for being the latter. It is his other qualifiers, however, that mark him an unlikely candidate. Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek has a lot to say about Jesus Christ, which might not appear terribly out of place in the present journal, especially during a month devoted to discussing the ecclesial imagination. ![]()
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