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Jesus’s Spectral Heritage examines various representations of Jesus in popular culture today, e.g. film. The chapter includes a discussion of H. Richard Niebuhr’s Christ and Culture (Harper and Row 2001), Graham Ward’s Christ and Culture (Blackwell 2005), and Daniel Colucciello Barber’s Deleuze and the Naming of God (Edinburgh UP 2014). The bulk of the chapter examines Žižek and Milbank’s debate in The Monstrosity of Christ and concludes on the side of Žižek’s Christian atheism (modified by Derridean hauntology). In addition, the chapter examines religious art and Christian materiality in the context of Caroline Walker Bynum’s book Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe (Zone Books 2011).
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Taylor, V.E. (2017). Jesus’s Spectral Heritage. In: Christianity, Plasticity, and Spectral Heritages. Radical Theologies and Philosophies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60991-1_4
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