<p>Contemporary Catholic theologian and interfaith activist Alen Kristić is a prolific author and thinker of the spiritual imperative of tolerance in Bosnia. A trained religious scholar and graduate of the Franciscan Seminary of Sarajevo, Kristić offers a radical reordering of received teleological values in his academic and poetic works. Within Kristić’s thought, human dignity and equal rights for marginalized groups takes precedence over participation in religious organizations, occasioning a form of godly atheism when confronted with the technologies of religious exclusion proffered by the church. Kristić’s line of thinking goes further than a social or theological critique, though, and his expansive writings reveal an ontotheological philosophy of affective solidarity that transcends notions of difference predicated on identity rather than praxis. In effect, Kristić’s philosophies reorder the religious system of values that prizes personal faith over all else, proposing that one’s positionality vis-à-vis hegemony must take precedence over religious orthodoxy. In his understanding of theology, God too would be an atheist in the current religious and political environment of the Western Balkans, and this paradox occasions a reevaluation of ontotheology through the lens of social justice. This article proposes to study and present Kristić’s timely interventions into the world of liberation theology. Through close analysis of selected theoretical and artistic writings, this article contextualizes and explores the ramifications of Kristić’s religious philosophy in terms of gender, sexuality, and other sites of societal marginalization. Kristić’s theology, ultimately, is predicated on the absolutes of hospitality and dialog, with his notion of the divine being precisely contingent on the two values. This orientation has led Kristić to champion sexual and gender diversity as reflections of his ontotheology, placing queerness next to godliness.</p>

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“Together with you an atheist I will be:” Alen Kristić’s religious philosophy of unequivocal hospitality

  • Brett Donohoe

摘要

Contemporary Catholic theologian and interfaith activist Alen Kristić is a prolific author and thinker of the spiritual imperative of tolerance in Bosnia. A trained religious scholar and graduate of the Franciscan Seminary of Sarajevo, Kristić offers a radical reordering of received teleological values in his academic and poetic works. Within Kristić’s thought, human dignity and equal rights for marginalized groups takes precedence over participation in religious organizations, occasioning a form of godly atheism when confronted with the technologies of religious exclusion proffered by the church. Kristić’s line of thinking goes further than a social or theological critique, though, and his expansive writings reveal an ontotheological philosophy of affective solidarity that transcends notions of difference predicated on identity rather than praxis. In effect, Kristić’s philosophies reorder the religious system of values that prizes personal faith over all else, proposing that one’s positionality vis-à-vis hegemony must take precedence over religious orthodoxy. In his understanding of theology, God too would be an atheist in the current religious and political environment of the Western Balkans, and this paradox occasions a reevaluation of ontotheology through the lens of social justice. This article proposes to study and present Kristić’s timely interventions into the world of liberation theology. Through close analysis of selected theoretical and artistic writings, this article contextualizes and explores the ramifications of Kristić’s religious philosophy in terms of gender, sexuality, and other sites of societal marginalization. Kristić’s theology, ultimately, is predicated on the absolutes of hospitality and dialog, with his notion of the divine being precisely contingent on the two values. This orientation has led Kristić to champion sexual and gender diversity as reflections of his ontotheology, placing queerness next to godliness.