Paul's Summons to Messianic Life: Political Theology and the Coming Awakening
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, whi...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Columbia University Press
2015
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| In: | Year: 2015 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Welborn, L. L., Paul's Summons to Messianic Life] (2017) (Holmes, Christopher T., 1983 -)
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| Series/Journal: | Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
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| Summary: | 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 |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| ISBN: | 0231171315 |