St. Paul Among the Philosophers

by Caputo, John D.; Alcoff, Linda Martin

• ISBN13: 9780253353177
• ISBN10: 0253353173
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-15
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

Paul's thought explored by contemporary philosophers

Author Biography

John D. Caputo is Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Humanities at Syracuse University. He is author or editor of several publications, including The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event (IUP, 2006) and Transcendence and Beyond: A Postmodern Inquiry (IUP, 2007).

Linda Mart+¡n Alcoff is Laura J. and Douglas Meredith Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University. She is author of Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self and editor (with Eva Feder Kittay) of The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Postcards from Paul: Subtraction versus Grafting

Paul Among the Philosophers

Saint Paul, Founder of the Universal Subject

From Job to Christ: A Paulinian Reading of Chesterton

Paul between the Jews and Christians

Historical Integrity, Interpretive Freedom: The Philosopher's Paul and the Problem of Anachronism

Paul between Judaism and Hellenism

The Promise of Teleology, the Constraints of Epistemology, and Universal Vision in Paul

Paul Among the Antiphilosophers; or, Saul Among the Sophists

Paul's Notion of dunamis: Between the Possible and the Impossible

Concluding Roundtable: St. Paul Among the Historians and the Systematizers

List of Contributors

Index

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