| Summary: | The human mortality forms a whole with man’s terrestrial nature and with his sense of inferiority before God. Being born from the soil for God’s will, mankind is condemned to return into the soil because of the same will, to be dissolved like dust under the surface of the earth.
Christianity is the only monotheistic religion that promises the deliverance from this doom. But both from a theological and a symbolic point of view (the Cross, the Holy Sepulchre and so on), as well as from a topological or imaginary perspective (catacombs, relics, crypts) Christianity seems to be permeated by a pulviscular bond between soul life (psychicity), death and underground. From a sub-religious perspective and proceeding along paths outlined by other geologists of thought (Nietzsche, Foucault, Nancy), this essay visits those places hidden under the surface of faith and tries to shed light on the underground of Christianity as a ‘psychotic’ religion about human imperfections. But it tries to evaluate the faults of its metamorphic survival in the Contemporary World, too.
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