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After reading Koltaj’s study with great admiration, I decided to focus in this brief afterword on a very specific topic: the challenge posed to the Christian theology by the vision (or, rather, hypothesis) of so-called Singularity. I am not dealing here with the technological feasibility of the project of Singularity (there are serious doubts about it), I just want to confront two different logics of the Fall and Redemption. The stakes of this difference are not only theological but also political: if one wants to preserve the emancipatory core of Christianity, it is crucial to remain faithful to the authentic Christian notion of Redemption.
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Michael E. Zimmerman, “The Singularity: A Crucial Phase in Divine Self-actualization?”, Available at http://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/viewFile/107/213. Non-attributed quotes that follow are from this essay.
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Quoted from Zimmerman, op. cit.
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Quoted from op. cit.
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Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason, London: Macmillan 1956, pp. 152–153.
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G.W.F. Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1977, p. 129.
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G.W.F. Hegel, Vorlesungen ueber die Philosophie der Religion II, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag 1969, p. 206.
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Hegel, op. cit., p. 207.
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Op. cit., p. 205.
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G.W.F. Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, p. 21.
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Žižek, S. (2019). Afterword by Slavoj Žižek: The Fall That Makes Us Like God. In: Žižek Reading Bonhoeffer. Radical Theologies and Philosophies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26094-1_5
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