Paul's Summons to Messianic Life: Political Theology and the Coming Awakening

by L.L. Welborn

Book Overview

Taubes, Badiou, Agamben, Zizek, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231171315
• ISBN13: 9780231171311
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 6.9"