Theology after Lacan: the passion for the real

The central thesis of this book is that theology in the wake of Lacanian psychoanalysis is devoid of the +¦the big Other+Â, i.e., a guarantee that a system of belief is forever secured by a master-signifier around which all meaning takes its place.

Indeed, this book reverses this thesis: Only after Lacan can theology mean anything at all.

It is precisely by rejecting the idol of God+ås necessity (deus ex machina) that theology can only make sense in and through the wild untamable flux and fury of an uncontrollable contingency.