Christianity after Christendom: Heretical Perspectives in Philosophical Theology

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What comes after the end of Christendom Christianity has ceased to function as the dominant force in society and yet the Christian faith continues. How are we to understand Christianity in this after Bringing into conversation seven unorthodox or heretical continental philosophers, including Jan Patocka, Jean-Luc Nancy, Gianni Vattimo and John D. Caputo, Martin Koci re-centres the debates around philosophys so-called return to religion to address the current not-Christian, but not yet non-Christian culture. In the modern context of increasing secularization and pluralization, Christianity after Christendom boldly proposes that Christians must embrace the demise of Christianity as a meta-narrative and see their faith as an existential mode of being-in-the-world. Whilst not denying the religions history, this after of Christianity emancipates the discourse from the socio-historical focus on Christendom and introduces new perspectives on Christianity as an embodied religious tradition, as a way of being, even as a faithfulness to the world. In dialogue with a broad range of philosophical movements, including deconstruction, phenomenology, hermeneutics and postmodern critiques of religion, this is a timely examination of the present and future of post-Christendom Christianity.

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Martin Koci is Associate Professor at the Institute of Fundamental Theology and Dogmatics, KU Linz, Austria. He is the author of Thinking Faith after Christianity (2020) for which he received the Book Prize for the Theological Book of the Years 2019-2020 from the European Society for Catholic Theology.