The Myth of Christian Eschatology as Counter-Myth to Neoliberal Capitalist Vulgate

Abstract

Fashionable among postmodern writers today is the deconstruction of modernist project of de-mythologizing the pre-Enlightenment religious worldview. Following Adorno and Horkheimer, postmodernists unmask the myths undergirding scientism and secularism in the post-secular world. This article, while agreeing with the postmodern trope, contends that what is missed in this critique is the pseudo-universal pretension of neoliberal capitalism as the unrivalled myth of the vulgate of globalization. Using Christian eschatology as a counter-myth, this article contends that today more than ever we need apocalyptic messianism inherent in both socialism and Christianity to practically challenge the triumphant post-Cold War myth of neoliberalism.