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Paul’s summons to messianic life : political theology and the coming awakening

By AGAMBEN , Giorgio; Welborn , L. L

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
978-0-231-53915-9, 0231539150, 978-0-231-17130-4, 978-0-231-17131-1
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (5450407 bytes)
Series
Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
Pages
0\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

Taubes, Badiou, Agamben, Žižek, Reinhard, and Santner have found in the Apostle Paul's emphasis on neighbor-love a positive paradigm for politics. By thoroughly reexamining Pauline eschatology, L. L. Welborn suggests that neighbor-love depends upon an orientation toward the messianic event, which Paul describes as the "now time" and which he imagines as "awakening." Welborn compares the Pauline dialectic of awakening to attempts by Hellenistic philosophers to rouse their contemporaries from moral lethargy and to the Marxist idea of class consciousness, emphasizing the apostle’s radical spirit and moral relevance.

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