Clandestine Theology: A Non-Philosopher's Confession of Faith

Author : "Professor Francois Laruelle (Universite de Paris X, Nanterre, France)"

Paperback

Published : Thursday 3 September 2020

ISBN : 9781350104310

Price : €26.50

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First published in 2019 in France as Thaeologie Clandestine pour les sans-religion: Une confession de foi du non-philosophe by Editions Kimae.

In this new translation, Laruelle offers a serious and rigorous challenge to contemporary theological thought, calling into question the dominant understanding of the relation between Christ, theology, and philosophy, not only from a theoretical, but also political perspective. He achieves this through an inversion of St Paul's reading of Christ, through which the ground for Christianity shifts. It is no longer the 'event' of the resurrection, as philosophical and theological operation (Badiou's St Paul), so much as the Risen Himself that forms the starting point for a non-philosophical confession. Between the Greek and the Jew, Laruelle places the Gnostic-Christ in order to disrupt and overturn such theologico-philosophical interpretations of the resurrection and set the Risen within the radical immanence of Man-in-Person. Forming the basis for a non-Christianity, Clandestine Theology offers a more radical deconstruction of Christianity, resting upon the last identity of Man and the humanity of Christ as opposed to endless deferral or difference (Nancy) or the universalising economy of Ideas and Events (Badiou).

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