The narrative, imagery and allegorical power that marks the work of José Saramago has long been known. In this sense, the present study focuses on The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991) and pursuits to trace reading paths that shed light on our hypothesis that there is, in this novel, the consolidation of a desacralizing poetics through intertextuality, irony, and parody (HUTCHEON: 1985, 1991). These elements are articulated in the post-modern hermeneutics of the historical, artistic, and religious discourses that make up the list of references in this narrative. For this, we will use a formalist approach, according to Chklóvski (2013) and Todorov (2013), in the analysis of some of its representative excerpts, as well as the concepts o...