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Friday, December 16, 2011

The Revolutionary Potential of the Actually Existing Church

The Revolutionary Potential of the Actually Existing Church

By Peter Rollins

I was recently reading Slavoj Zizek’s excellent essay “The Ambiguity of the Masochist Social Link” and was struck by his reflection on how symptoms can represent forgotten failures to act. I would like to reflect upon this in relation to what we see in so much of the actually existing church today.
In order to approach this subject let us begin by taking the example of a man who drinks to excess, neglects his children and mistreats his...continued

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