Introduction: The Question of Christology after the Death of God
1. Gianni Vattimo
1.1. The Background of Vattimo's Christology: How the Return of Religion Became Possible (Nietzsche, Heidegger)1.2. Vattimo's Christology: Kenosis and Caritas
2. Slavoj Žižek
2.1. The Background of Žižek's Christology: Reading Hegel's Christology with Lacan
2.2. Žižek's Christology
2.2.1. The Deadlock of the Sacrificial Interpretation of Christ's Death on the Cross
2.2.2. From God as 'Wholly Other Thing' to God as 'Barely Nothing'
2.2.3. The Coming of Christ, the Death of the Divine Thing
2.2.4. The Crucified Christ, the Ultimate objet petit a



3. René Girard
3.1. The Background of Girard's Christology: Mimesis and the Scapegoating Mechanism
3.2. Girard's Christology
3.2.1. Girard's Account of the Christ Event
3.2.2. Girard vs. Nietzsche: Dionysus and the Crucified One - on the impact of the Christ Event in World History



4. Evaluations & Confrontations
4.1. Vattimo's Christology, a Return of 'God Is Dead'-Theology
4.2. Girard vs. Vattimo
4.3. The Shared Inspiration of Žižek and Girard
4.4. The Fate of Transcendence in the Work of Žižek
4.5. Girard vs. Žižek
4.6. General Conclusion: On the Transcendence of Love and the Uniqueness of Christianity