The Monstrosity of Christ provides an exchange between the Slovenian theorist Slavoj Žižek and the British theologian John Milbank. Both authors argue
that Christianity is the religion of ‘absolute truth,’ but provide very different accounts of this. Milbank argues that Christianity
is true insofar as only the incarnation of Christ mediates the paradoxical metaphysical participation of the finite within
the infinite. Žižek argues that the crucifixion of Christ constitutes the death of God, demonstrating that there is no providential
or transcendent reality supervening on human history. This realization constitutes the universal truth of Christianity.
Keywords John Milbank - Slavoj Žižek - Creston Davis - Radical Orthodoxy - Death of God - Analogy - Participation