Paul's Summons to Messianic Life : : Political Theology and the Coming Awakening / / L. Welborn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Welborn, L.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (152 p.) :; 6 illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Neighbor (A) --; 2. Kairos (B) --; 3. Awakening (C) --; 4. Awakening (C') --; 5. Kairos (B') 45 --; 6. Neighbor (A') --; 7. Coda --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231539159; 9783110665864
• DOI: 10.7312/welb17130
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: L. Welborn.

Taubes, Badiou, Agamben, Žižek, Reinhard, and Santner have found in the Apostle Paul's emphasis on neighbor-love a positive paradigm for politics. By thoroughly reexamining Pauline eschatology, L. L. Welborn suggests that neighbor-love depends upon an orientation toward the messianic event, which Paul describes as the "now time" and which he imagines as "awakening." Welborn compares the Pauline dialectic of awakening to attempts by Hellenistic philosophers to rouse their contemporaries from moral lethargy and to the Marxist idea of class consciousness, emphasizing the apostle's radical spirit and moral relevance.