Secular Messiahs and the Return of Paul's 'Real' [electronic resource] : A Lacanian Approach /
Principe, C.author.
This project engages with scholarship on Paul by philosophers, psychoanalysts, and historians to reveal the assumptions and prejudices that determine the messiah in secularism and its association with the exception.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One The Trauma of Secularism; Chapter Two Messianic Roads and Highways: From Paul's Weakness to Benjamin's Weak; Chapter Three Paul and the Law: Love, Circumcision, and the Death of Sin; Chapter Four Interpellation Beyond Interpellation; Chapter Five The Messianic Exceptions; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Biblical and OtherAncient Literary Sources; Index
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
This project engages with scholarship on Paul by philosophers, psychoanalysts, and historians to reveal the assumptions and prejudices that determine the messiah in secularism and its association with the exception.
Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.
Bible.
Religion-Philosophy.
Judaism-Doctrines.
Theology.
Religion.
Analysis (Philosophy).
Social sciences.
Philosophy of Religion.
Jewish Theology.
Christian Theology.
Religious Studies, general.
Analytic Philosophy.
Social Sciences, general.