“Belief Is Impossible and Necessary.” Crisis of History and Eschatological Hope in Sergio Quinzio

This article offers a philosophical reading of Sergio Quinzio’s thought as a radical interpretation of the crisis of contemporary humanity. Starting from the deferral of the Christian eschatological promise, it analyzes the erosion of the meaning of history and of the possibility of conceiving the future as a space of transformation. In Quinzio, the non-fulfillment of salvation does not constitute a theological anomaly, but rather the site in which the dramatic truth of historical experience emerges: the rupture between promise and fulfillment, between hope and despair. Through a reflection on the Cross, on the theme of failure, and on a critique of the dominant narratives of modernity, the article shows how Quinzio’s discourse situates faith as a potential bearer of an eminently critical function, preventing the present from being absolutized. Hope, deprived of any guarantee, thus takes shape as an experience of risk and as resistance to meaninglessness, making Quinzio’s thought relevant for a philosophical understanding of the anthropological and symbolic crisis of contemporaneity.