Saint Paul and Contemporary European Philosophy : the outcast and the spirit / Gert-Jan van der Heiden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

van der Heiden, Gert-Jan, author.

Series:

Crosscurrents (Edinburgh University Press)

Crosscurrents

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy and religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 pages).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Offers a new systematic account of the philosophical potential of Saint Paul's lettersShows the present-day philosophical importance of the letters of the founder of ChristianityArgues that important ontological problems concerning dualism, nihilism and the event appear in an unexpected light when read through a Pauline lensShows a new philosophical appraisal of the Pauline conception of faith in terms of an art of livingOffers a new systematic approach to the intriguing present-day philosophical turn to the Letters of Saint Paul in the works of Heidegger, Taubes, Badiou, Agamben and ZizekDiscusses how Saint Paul allows philosophers to rethink the notions of law and community giving rise to a new type of political philosophyThe 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.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Another Legacy of Paul?Retrieving PaulPhilosophical Self-Portraits as PaulThree Leitmotifs Overview

2. The Dialectic Spirit of Paul Paul, a Dualist?Gnostic Temptation and Pauline SpiritDialectic between Monism and DualismWhich Dialectic?

3. The Ghost of Nihilism Devaluations of LifeNietzsche's Polemic Faith as Holding-to-be-TrueRetrieving Ancient Thought

4. Meontology Nothing in the WorldSense of an EndingAs Not Cast Out from the World

5. Time, Event, and Exception Death and ResurrectionDialectic of ExceptionParousia and Potentiality-of-Being-Otherwise Between Past and Future

6. Law, Promise, and Grace State of ExceptionPaul's Dialectic Political Theology Dualism of Law and Grace? Katargesis and Charis

7. Community, Exception, and Outcast All IsraelNeither Jew nor GreekA Part Without PartSet Apart

8. Epilogue: A Pauline Dialectic of ExceptionPositioning Paul in Ancient ThoughtNavigating DialecticallyFirstfruits of the Spirit

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