Saint Paul and contemporary European philosophy : the outcast and the spirit / Gert-Jan Van Der Heiden.
"The turn to Saint Paul's letters in contemporary European philosophy is one of the most important developments at the crossroads of philosophy and theology today. In discussion with a range of authors contributing to this movement, including Heidegger, Badiou, Agamben, and Taubes, Gert-J...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | Crosscurrents (Edinburgh University Press)
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
| Summary: | "The turn to Saint Paul's letters in contemporary European philosophy is one of the most important developments at the crossroads of philosophy and theology today. In discussion with a range of authors contributing to this movement, including Heidegger, Badiou, Agamben, and Taubes, Gert-Jan van der Heiden offers a new and systematic account of the philosophical potential of these letters. He does so by uncovering a dialectic of exception, which revolves around the Pauline notions of the outcast and the spirit. Against a general tendency to understand the significance of Paul in politico-theological terms alone, van der Heiden focuses on the ontological potential of Saint Paul's letters by elucidating what they imply for our thinking about (non-)beings, world, event, time, exception and spirit. Ultimately, he shows how this dialectic implies a new understanding of being and thinking and gives rise to a new art of living, both ethically and politically. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 222 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [202]-214) and index. |