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.

St. Paul Among The Philosophers

John D. Caputo

Linda MartÃn Alcoff

Indiana University Press

Questioning God

Politics & Social Sciences

Mark Dooley

Michael J. Scanlon

Philosophy

Radical Hermeneutics : Repetition, Deconstruction, and the Hermeneutic Project

<p>This provocative addition to The Church and Postmodern Culture series offers a lively rereading of Charles Sheldon's In His Steps as a constructive way forward. John D. Caputo introduces the notion of why the church needs deconstruction, positively defines deconstruction's role in renewal, deconstructs idols of the church, and imagines the future of the church in addressing the practical implications of this for the church's life through liturgy, worship, preaching, and teaching. Students of philosophy, theology, religion, and ministry, as well as others interested in engaging postmodernism and the emerging church phenomenon, will welcome this provocative, nontechnical work.</p>

What Would Jesus Deconstruct?: The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church (The Church and Postmodern Culture)

History

World

Baker Academic

Contents: Introduction -- Russ LeoAre There Any Saints Left? Leon Rozitchner as a Reader of Saint Augustine -- Bruno Bosteels;Introduction and Appendix I from The Thing and the Cross: Christianity and Capitalism (About Saint Augustine's Confessions)(1997) -- Leon Rozitchner, translated by Karen Benezra and Rachel Price;The Limits of Franz Boas's Multiculturalism: An Augustinian Critique -- Jonathan TranLove and Citizenship After Augustine -- Eric GregoryAugustine and Post-Secular Political Theology -- Creston Davis Quid Est Enim Tempus?: On the Augustinian Distentio as a Figure of Modern Market-Time -- Robert GerouxWittgenstein s Augustine: The Inauguration of the Later Philosophy -- James WetzelA Theology of our Desire: Dialogue with John D. CaputoFrom Sovereignty to Gift: Augustine's Critique of Interiority -- John MilbankBooks in Review

Polygraph 19/20: Cities of Men, Cities of God: Augustine and Late Secularism

John Milbank

Leon Rozitchner

Bruno Bosteels

Creston Davis

Robert Geroux

James Wetzel

Eric Gregory

Jonathan Tran

Polygraph: An International Journal of Culture and Politics

Hoping Against Hope: Confessions of a Postmodern Pilgrim

Fortress Press

Soren Kierkegaard is one of the prophets of the contemporary age, a man whose acute observations on life in 19th century. Copenhagen might have been written yesterday, whose work anticipated fundamental developments in psychoanalysis, philosophy, theology and the critique of mass culture by over a century. John Caputo offers a compelling account of Kierkegaard as a thinker of particular relevance in our postmodern times, who set off a revolution that numbers Martin Heidegger and Karl Barth among its heirs. His conceptions of truth as a self-transforming "deed" and his haunting account of the "single individual" seemed to have been written with us especially in mind. Extracts include Kierkegaard's classic reading of the story of Abraham and Isaac, the jolting theory that truth is subjectivity and his ground-breaking analysis of the concept of anxiety.

How to Read Kierkegaard

Granta Books

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