Book, Suffering of God, The: inversions of the Apocalypse[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. The Suffering of God: Inversions of Revelation is a brilliant analysis and reconstruction of today's three major belief systems. A debate between Slavoj Žižek, one of the most articulate intellectuals in the world, and the Croatian philosopher Boris Gunjevi?, a radical theologian. In six chapters that describe Christianity, Islam, and Judaism using the tools of Hegelian and Lacanian analysis, the book shows how each religious system understands humanity and divinity, and how the differences between them can be much stranger than they seem. at first sight. The debaters offer us a critical inquiry, not a religious text. With a contagious dedication and a genius for making unlikely connections, Žižek calls into question supposed Western atheism and contemplates the disconcerting idea of ​​an Almighty who both suffers and prays. Starting from Žižek's antics and presenting others, Gunjevi? makes the revolutionary call for a theology that weakens the cunning “enslavement of desire” of the capitalist world. With striking examples and sharp logic, Žižek and Gunjevi? they evoke thinkers ranging from Augustine to Lacan, and discussions that include the duality between Christian and pagan ethics, the “class struggle” implied in the reading of the Quran and the role of gender in Islam. Together, they confirm and analyze faith in the 20th century, shaking the structures of Abrahamic traditions.