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Author Dunning, Benjamin H., author

Title Christ Without Adam : subjectivity and sexual difference in the Philosophers' Paul / Benjamin H. Dunning
Published New York : Columbia University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (171 pages)
Series Gender, Theory, and Religion
Gender, theory, and religion.
Contents Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Reading Anthropology in Breton's Saint Paul; 2. Mysticism, Femininity, and Difference in Badiou's Theory of Pauline Discourses; 3. "Adam Is Christ": Žižek, Paul, and the Collapse of the Anthropological Interval; 4. Pauline Typology, Theological Anthropology, and the Possibilities of Impossible Difference; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary The apostle Paul deals extensively with gender, embodiment, and desire in his authentic letters, yet many of the contemporary philosophers interested in his work downplay these aspects of his thought. Christ Without Adam is the first book to examine the role of gender and sexuality in the turn to the apostle Paul in recent Continental philosophy. It builds a constructive proposal for embodied Christian theological anthropology in conversation with?and in contrast to?the?Paulinisms" of Stanislas Breton, Alain Badiou, and Slavoj Žižek. Paul's letters bequeathed a crucial anthropological a
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Breton, Stanislas.
Badiou, Alain.
Žižek, Slavoj.
SUBJECT Badiou, Alain fast
Breton, Stanislas fast
Žižek, Slavoj fast
Bible. Epistles of Paul -- Theology
Bible. Epistles of Paul fast
Subject Sex differences -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Theological anthropology -- Christianity.
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- New Testament.
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Paul's Letters.
PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Deconstruction.
Sex differences -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Theological anthropology -- Christianity
Theology
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013035165
ISBN 9780231537339
0231537336
1306777143
9781306777148
0231167644
9780231167642
0231167652
9780231167659