Keywords
imperial ideologies
body
nature
natural law
Incarnation
queer eschatology
theology of failure
How to Cite
Abstract
The article is an attempt to map more closely a queer revolutionary
potential of Christian theology, which has two sources: historico-political (anti-
-imperial roots of Christianity in a colonial situation, generating a permanent
opposition against the imperial ideologies of the „eternal order”, virtue and power,
as well as some comprehensive parodistic strategies), and religio-imaginative (theology
of Incarnation and Resurrection as revolutionary discourses set against the whole
ancient metaphysical tradition working around the concept of „nature” and the
positive, determining orders of being / universe, which stabilize the political imperial
orders, homonoia). The Christian projects turned out to be both „deviant” and
„reappriopriative”: crypto-political radicalism of Christian theology of Incarnation
and Resurrection has produced an enormous tension being relieved by some naturalization
of a higher order, but that tension cannot be erased without destroying
the very anti-imperial and anti-naturalistic foundations of the theology. Christian
erotic eschatology of the „saving failures” as a religio-political utopia has nothing
to do with the „natural order” or community of republican / imperial subjects and
their virtues, which is why the political, ecclesial bodies are the queer bodies, unable
to be regular organs within the „perfect body” as an eternal schēma.
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