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

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 o...