Emancipatory Faith: Reflection on Alain Badiou and the Christians for National Liberation

• Main Authors: Imbong, Regletto Aldrich D., Imbong, Jerry D.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Emancipation politics; Christians for National Liberation; Event; subject; fidelity; National Democratic Revolution
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/budhi/vol21/iss1/2; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/budhi/article/1346/viewcontent/Budhi_2021.1_202_20Article_20__20Imbong_20and_20Imbong.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Although Badiouian political thought maintains an obvious distance from theology, theisms, and all forms of transcendental conceptualizations of human liberation, it does allow the most universal form of democratic mass participation, including by Christian believers. This crossover, far from b...