Paul's Summons to Messianic Life Political Theology and the Coming Awakening |
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| Author:
| Welborn, L. |
| Series title: | Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-53915-9 |
| Publication Date: | May 2015 |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | USD $27.99 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionTaubes, 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.