Paul's Remediation.
This article explores how Jacques Derrida's claim that Christianity is an originally mediatized religion might inflect the concept of "messianic time" as derived from Paul's letters by Giorgio Agamben. Agamben's messianic time is the time it takes to conceive and represent time's own end. I argue th...
| Published in: | Journal of Religion Vol. 104; no. 3; pp. 308 - 333 |
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University of Chicago Press
Jul2024
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