Abstract: The subject of this research is the question of balance between the existence and nothingness using the example of materialistic theology of A. Badiou and S. Žižek. The article reveals the meaning of why the event of resurrection of Christ is important to A. Badiou, as well as view of S. Žižek upon the positive event as just another version of ideology. For Badiou, resurrection becomes a universal power, which allows a human to obtain identity, while for S. Žižek, such identity becomes a duplication law, which the event attempted to get rid of. He sees the power of liberation in nonexistence or death. Methodological base applies the phenomenological method, which considers the theological abstractions without resolving the question about their existence or nonexistence. Author’s main contribution into this research is the comparative-analytical conclusions regarding the positions of the philosophers. It is determined that these positions are affinitive to each other and follow a single goal – to release a man; but due to various theoretical tasks – dispute with Nietzsche in Badiou’s situation, and opposition to ideology in S. Žižek’s case – they choose different methods.