Paul`s Summons to Messianic Life - Political Theology and the Coming Awakening

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-17130-4
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 185 mm, Gewicht: 260 g

Reihe: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Welborn, L. L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Geschichte der Theologie, Einzelne Theologen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Ethik, Moraltheologie, Sozialethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PrefaceAcknowledgments1. Neighbor (a)2. Kairos (b)3. Awakening (c)4. Awakening (c')5. Kairos (b')6. Neighbor (a')7. CodaNotesIndex

Über Autor(innen)

L. L. Welborn is professor of New Testament and early Christianity at Fordham University.