„Garden among the Flames”. The Erotics of Imperium, Ecclesial Bodies, and Queering the Marriage

• Main Author: Marek Woszczek
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Adam Mickiewicz University 2013-01-01
• Series: Praktyka Teoretyczna
• Subjects: teologia queer; ideologie imperialne; ciało; natura; prawo naturalne; Wcielenie; queerowa eschatologia; teologia porażki
• Online Access: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/prt/article/view/2925

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