June 19, 2009

Books

Either/Or

The Monstrosity of ChristParadox or Dialectic?Slavoj Žižek and John Milbank, Edited by Creston DavisThe MIT Press, $27.95, 306 pp.

Paul J. Griffiths

Serious thought about what there is and what it’s like leads in the end to one of two conclusions: Christ or nothing. Christ-centered trinitarianism sees Jesus, the incarnate Lord, as the crux of the cosmos, and the cosmos as a series of intensities brought into being out of nothing and ordered according to degree of intimacy with the triune Lord. Evil, in this view, is secon (...)


 

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