Agama bukan hanya masalah batin, rohani, spiritual, tetapi juga masalah lahir, jasmani dan material-fisik. Karena itu penghayatan atau kehidupannya tak hanya menyangkut bidang rohani, tetapi juga bidang jasmani, meliputi: hidup pribadi, hubungan dengan sesama, kemasyarakatan dalam arti luas, kebangsaan, bahkan dunia dan alam semesta. Bagaimana dampak penghayatan atau kehidupan agama itu dalam h…
Agenda yang belum selesai Konsili Vatikan II yang merupakan langkah maju dan dinamis yang diambil oleh Gereja Katolik secara radikal telah merubah hubungan ekumenis dalam 40 tahun terakhir ternyata belum sepenuhnya dapat memetik buah yang terbaik dari konsili tersebut sebab dalam kenyataannya belum semua Gereja di seantero dunia ini melakukan perubahan sesuai dengan harapan dalam semangat dan j…
Slavoj Žižek has been called "an academic rock star" and "the wild man of theory"; his writing mixes astonishing erudition and references to pop culture in order to dissect current intellectual pieties. In The Puppet and the Dwarf he offers a close reading of today's religious constellation from the viewpoint of Lacanian psychoanalysis. He critically confronts both predominant versions of tod…
A brilliant dissection and reconstruction of the three major faith-based systems of belief in the world today, from one of the world's most articulate intellectuals, Slavoj Zizek, in conversation with Croatian philosopher Boris Gunjevic. In six chapters that describe Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in fresh ways using the tools of Hegelian and Lacanian analysis, God in Pain: Inversions of Apoc…
What is the basis of belief in an era when globalization, multiculturalism and big business are the new religion? Slavoj Zizek, renowned philosopher and irrepressible cultural critic takes on all comers in this compelling and breathless new book. From 'cyberspace reason' to the paradox that is 'Western Buddhism', On Belief gets behind the contours of the way we normally think about belief, in …
The rediscovery of the apostle Paul by atheistic or agnostic European philosophers is one of the most striking recent developments in philosophy--and certainly one of keen interest to the church. These philosophers view Paul as having a revolutionary understanding of authority and politics. Bringing together Radical Orthodox theologian John Milbank, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zižek, and Cre…
“What matters is not so much that Žižek is endorsing a demythologized, disenchanted Christianity without transcendence, as that he is offering in the end (despite what he sometimes claims) a heterodox version of Christian belief.”--John Milbank“To put it even more bluntly, my claim is that it is Milbank who is effectively guilty of heterodoxy, ultimately of a regression to paganism: in …