Deconstruction of christianity: ontological imperative to the experience of God in postmodernity

• Autor(a) principal: Caldeira, Cleusa
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Horizonte - Revista de Estudos de Teologia e Ciências da Religião
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/horizonte/article/view/P.2175-5841.2018v16n51p1270
• topic: postmodern; post-Christian; post-metaphysical; experience of God; Christianity dis-enclosure; Sciences of Religion; Theology; pós-modernidade; pós-cristão; pós-metafísico; experiência de Deus; cristianismo declosionado; Ciência da Religião; Teorias de Linguagem; Estudos de Religião; Teologia

With text examines the way secular reason has contributed to the thinking of God's experience in the post-Christian and post-metaphysical context. In this new context, the main contributions of "mystical nihilism" to the possible religious experience in the context of new cultural conditions are made explicit. Fundamental will be the assumption of deconstruction as a method of critical thinking. The Mexican theologian, Carlos Mendoza Álvarez, who, starting from the post-Christian critique to the systems of belief and morals, proposes to overcome the obstacles that impede the access to the divine source and, consequently, the return to the very thing of the Christian faith. In this horizon, the deconstruction of Christianity emerges as an ontological imperative to overcome classical metaphysics and, consequently, to ascend to the metaphysics of the Being Superessential. Inserted, then, in its own deconstruction, from the dis-enclosure Christianity, emerges the nihilist faith as a power of subjectivity, it as the stage that represents the passage from the world of belief to the iconoclastic and apophatic world, that is, the world of faith without idolatry of the subject.