| Paul's Summons to Messianic Life: Political Theology and the Coming Awakening Contributor(s): Welborn, L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0231171315 ISBN-13: 9780231171311 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $27.72 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - Philosophy | Movements - Deconstruction - Religion | Christian Theology - General |
| Dewey: 227.06 |
| LCCN: 2014033472 |
| Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and C |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.4" W x 6.9" (0.40 lbs) 152 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 and moral relevance. |