Gianni Vattimo’s cristianiilismo

Abstract

This article presents a debate on Gianni Vattimo’s conceptions of religion and Christianity, interpreting the meaning of Christianity through the concept of kénosis and the importance of caritas in its broad humanitarian sense. Vattimo explored authors such as Nietzsche and Heidegger, who, by renouncing metaphysical questions, sought to preserve the capacity for the synthesis of human reason. The ideas about the death of God and the end of metaphysics indicate the weakening of the conception of God as an absolute foundation, as well as the loss of the claim to attain the truth in its entirety, an objective historically pursued by metaphysics. This process marks the transition from modern to postmodern thought. The nihilistic vocation of hermeneutics consistas in recognizing the fact that there is