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 (...)
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.
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