Review article

https://doi.org/10.21464/fi36209

Echoes of Radical Theology in the Nonreligious Christianity of Gianni Vattimo

Zoran Turza orcid.org/0000-0001-8436-6592 ; Hrvatsko katoličko sveučilište, Ilica 242, HR–10000 Zagreb

Abstract

This paper focuses on the relation between “weak thought” of Gianni Vattimo and theological movement called “radical theology” or “death of God theology”. The first part consists of an overview of the main representatives of radical theology which seeks to break up with classic theology, considered to begin with transcendent and distant God. The second part provides an overview of the three Vattimo’s subjects that coincide with the thesis of radical theology: nonreligious Christianity, kenosis and Church. Nonreligious Christianity as the liberation of every authority functions as a wide thesis of radical theology about liberation of the classical approach to God. On the other hand for Vattimo, kenosis as self­emtpying of the God Father confirms the weakening of strong stories of the modern, and the classical model of the Church as well. At the same time kenosis in the radical theology confirms the death of God.

Keywords

death of God; radical theology; Gianni Vattimo; nonreligious Christianity; kenosis

Hrčak ID:

173358

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/173358

Publication date:

27.9.2016.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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