Journal article
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