In 2000, 2004, and 2005, the Vatican issued doctrinal censures against the works of three Catholic theologians. The main tension in The Political Scripting of Jesus revolves around the political stakes behind the disputation: by identifying severally the particular objectives of each dissentient treatise vis-à-vis the established prerogatives of the Roman incumbent, it moreover explores the existential insights within the various narrative strands of Christology at a time of quasi-complete Catholic disaffection in the West.
The purpose of this study is thus to fathom what the Savior Story, in its essentials, actually signifies — per se and for the existence of an institution such as the Catholic Church in this day and epoch — and what such a belief ultimately commands the believerto do as a (political) member of society.
The discussion of all such topics is, in connection with the inquisitorial notifications, accompanied by a variety of literary themes and sociological detours, such as the Gospel of Judas, Veblen’s reflections on primitive Christianity, Tolstoy’s re-elaboration on the New Testament, and, when touching on multiculturalism, the novels and aphorisms of Japanese Catholics, such as Akutagawa and Endo.
