St. Paul among the Philosophers (2009 Caputo/Alcoff), edited volume

St. Paul among the Philosophers (2009) is a volume edited by John D. Caputo and Linda Alcoff.

Abstract

Proceedings of a conference held April 14-16, 2005 at Syracuse University.

"In his epistles, St. Paul sounded a universalism that has recently been taken up by secular philosophers who do not share his belief in Christ, but who regard his project as centrally important for contemporary political life. The Pauline project--as they see it--is the universality of truth, the conviction that what is true is true for everyone, and that the truth should be known by everyone. In this volume, eminent New Testament scholars, historians, and philosophers debate whether Paul's promise can be fulfilled. Is the proper work of reading Paul to reconstruct what he said to his audiences? Is it crucial to retrieve the sense of history from the text? What are the philosophical undercurrents of Paul's message? This scholarly dialogue ushers in a new generation of Pauline studies."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009.

Contents

• Postcards from Paul: subtraction versus grafting / John D. Caputo
• St. Paul, founder of the universal subject / Alain Badiou
• From Job to Christ: a Paulinian reading of Chesterton / Slavoj Zizek
• Historical integrity, interpretive freedom: the philosopher's Paul and the problem of anachronism / Paula Fredriksen
• Paul between Judaism and Hellenism / Ed Parish Sanders
• The promise of teleology, the constraints of epistemology, and universal vision in Paul / Dale B. Martin
• Paul among the antiphilosophers, or, Saul among the sophists / Daniel Boyarin
• Paul's notion of dunamis: between the possible and the impossible / Richard Kearney
• Concluding roundtable: St. Paul among the historians and the systematizers

External links

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