A religião cristã em perspectiva pós-moderna

diálogo entre Gianni Vattimo e René Girard

Abstract

ABSTRACT

The aim of this article is to theoretically analyze the Christian religion in a post-modern perspective, present in the dialogue between the thinker Gianni Vattimo and René Girard. Our objective is justified, the post-modern category coined from the considerations of Gianni Vattimo, in which “pensiero debole” and non-religious Christianity outline a new epistemological scenario. Post-modernity, then, is not configured as an end to the Christian faith, but it is the self-realization of this religion. Vattimo's thought is welcomed by the Frenchman René Girard, who, based on his mimetic theory and study of the meaning of sacrifice in the great human cultures, develops new considerations for the Christian religion, highlighting its anthropological originality. Nevertheless, Christian charity, for both authors, supersedes any institutional interpretation of faith and is the core element of the revelatory process of God in Jesus Christ. Therefore, the question remains: it is enough for Christianity to be a religion of charity to configure itself as a true religion. To answer this question and aiming to achieve the proposed objective, the dialogue between these thinkers will be taken as material object, present in the work Christianity and Relativism, the work Believing what is believed by Gianni Vattimo, the work O Scapegoat by René Girard and commentators on the subject.