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Whither Messianic Ethics?
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Whither Messianic Ethics?

Abstract

IN RECENT YEARS SEVERAL IMPORTANT PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES ON THE ethical and political character of Pauline messianism have been published by continental philosophers such as Alain Badiou, Stanislaus Breton, Jacob Taubes, and Giorgio Agamben. In contrast to the Weberian "secularization thesis," which interprets Paul's eschatological messianism as one of indifference to worldly conditions, these authors—more in keeping with Walter Benjamin and …

Authors

Kroeker PT

Journal

Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 37–58

Publisher

Philosophy Documentation Center

DOI

10.5840/jsce20052524

ISSN

1540-7942