Saint Paul and Contemporary European Philosophy
The Outcast and the Spirit
Saint Paul and Contemporary European Philosophy
The Outcast and the Spirit
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Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781399521727
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 31/07/2023
Width: 13.8 cm
Height: 21.6 cm
The re-examination of 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.
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Another Legacy of Paul?
Retrieving Paul
Philosophical Self-Portraits as Paul
Three Leitmotifs
Overview
2. The Dialectic Spirit of Paul
Paul, a Dualist?
Gnostic Temptation and Pauline Spirit
Dialectic between Monism and Dualism
Which Dialectic?
3. The Ghost of Nihilism
Devaluations of Life
Nietzsche’s Polemic
Faith as Holding-to-be-True
Retrieving Ancient Thought
4. Meontology
Nothing in the World
Sense of an Ending
As Not
Cast Out from the World
5. Time, Event, and Exception
Death and Resurrection
Dialectic of Exception
Parousia and Potentiality-of-Being-Otherwise
Between Past and Future
6. Law, Promise, and Grace
State of Exception
Paul’s Dialectic Political Theology
Dualism of Law and Grace?
Katargesis and Charis
7. Community, Exception, and Outcast
All Israel
Neither Jew nor Greek
A Part Without Part
Set Apart
8. Epilogue: A Pauline Dialectic of Exception
Positioning Paul in Ancient Thought
Navigating Dialectically
Firstfruits of the Spirit
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