Thinking redemption intra-history in a post-modern key
Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: With this text we want to think about the path of possible redemption in a post-modern way. It starts from the observation that the current crisis with planetary dimensions in contemporary times has its roots in the advent of modernity with the expulsion of the metaphors of transcendence and the affirmation of the omnipotence of the modern subject for the salvation of humanity. This crisis is marked by the dismantling of the dream of childish omnipotence and by its pretensions of wholeness, because modern myths and, with them, the myths proper to Christianity have collapsed; leading to hopelessness in times of fragmentation. On the other hand, the collapse of the modern subject allows the emergence of subjectivity in its constitutive vulnerability and open to otherness and transcendence. Under the cultural pathos of postmodern nihilism, the path of redemption seems to pass through the rehabilitation of the powers of experience: desire, memory and imagination. This means that, due to the immanence of the exposed and radically open subjectivity, it is possible to enter the eschatological threshold of the real, of which Christianity presents itself as a carrier and indicator.
Source: Estudos Teológicos
Authors: Cleusa Caldeira, Antonio Carlos Barro
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4396835629