Abstract

As Slavoj Žižek writes in his book The Puppet and the Dwarf: the Perverse Core of Christianity , one of the only options generally permitted Christianity in the 21st century is to re-activate the “dangerous memory” of Jesus and return to the radical core of truth and that had to be repressed in order for the institutional Church to establish itself. In undertaking this task, this paper will set up a short-circuit between the paradoxical heart of Jesus' most memorable teachings on the Kingdom of God and Žižek's recently published magnum opus The Parallax View in a way that discloses a disturbing correspondence between his latest work on the “parallax gap” and the revolutionary kernel of the Christ-event while also providing an unexpected opening for the politics of Žižek as a “fighting atheist” who wants to re-activate the secret legacy Christianity