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Saint Paul and Contemporary European Philosophy: The Outcast and the Spirit

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Saint Paul and Contemporary European Philosophy: The Outcast and the Spirit

Contributors:
ISBN:

9781399521734

Publisher:

Edinburgh University Press

Imprint:

Edinburgh University Press

Publication Date:

9th September 2025

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Philosophy of religion
Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology
Theology

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

232

Dimensions:

Width 156mm, Height 234mm

Description

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.

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