TY  - GEN
T1  - Saint Paul and Contemporary European Philosophy
A1  - van der Heiden, Gert-Jan
LA  - eng
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
YR  - 2025
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/doab-20.500.12854-157882
AB  - The 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.
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Religious
KW  - Social
KW  - Metaphysics
KW  - bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRA Religion: general::HRAB Philosophy of religion
KW  - bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPS Social & political philosophy
KW  - bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPJ Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology
ER  -