Ola Sigurdson, professor of systematic theology, is Director of the Centre for Culture and Health at Gothenburg University, Sweden.

Introduction Aim and Structure Marxism and Theology How to Read Eagleton and Žižek Eagleton and the Sublunar Sublime Žižek and the Trauma of Faith Ideology as Idolatry or Vice Versa Ideology Critique Beyond the Postmodern The Embodied Self The Moderately Rational Nature of Human Beings Looking Awry Ideology as Doctrine, Ritual, and Belief Ideology and the Real The Continuing Need for a Critique of Ideology The Need for Faith The Creed According to Eagleton Faith, Reason, and Engagement The Adventures of Spirit The Importance of Being Born Again Catholic Thomism and Hegelian Protestantism God, Evil, and Freedom Aquinas and The Void of God Freedom After Nihilism The Reason for Evil Schelling, God and Evil The Abandonment of God Against Idolatry: On Not Quite Being Opposites An Arrested Dialogue Against the Ethics of the Real: Eagleton on Žižek Against the Return to the Symbolic: Žižek on Eagleton On Neighbourly Love An Anatomy of Hope Eschatology Revolution Communism Hope The (Re)turn to Theology Revisited