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Dawkins and Badiou: two atheist approaches to the Bible
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In this article, the authors compare the contributions of two leading atheists, Richard Dawkins and Alain Badiou, to the Bible as a disordered and chaotic anthology of events.Abstract:
This essay begins by contrasting the contributions of two leading atheists. Richard Dawkins dismisses the Bible as a disordered and chaotic anthology. Alain Badiou, in contrast, engages it (specifically the writings of Paul) as material that creatively maintains fidelity to revolutionary events. Badiou’s insight is taken here as a prompt to explore the diverse biblical witnesses to creation, which, as in the case of the resurrection, resists conceptual control. The Jewish and Christian traditions of creation theology can thereby offer an opportunity to explore, in the company of atheists, the ambiguities of the biblical canons and the capillaries of their socially formative effects.read more
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Theology of the Old Testament
TL;DR: Theology of the Old Testament as discussed by the authors is the most complete volume on the subject in English, or perhaps in any language, and it is a book that one takes up with enthusiastic anticipation of pleasure and profit in reading it, but one lays it down with a feeling of disappointment.
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Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
Alain Badiou,Peter Hallward +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, Badiou explodes the facile assumptions behind the recent ethical turn by governments of the West and shows how our prevailing ethical principles serve to reinforce an ideology of the status quo and ultimately fail to provide a framework for an effective understanding of the fundamental concepts of good and evil.
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Theology of the Old Testament
TL;DR: Theology of the Old Testament as discussed by the authors is the most complete volume on the subject in English, or perhaps in any language, and it is a book that one takes up with enthusiastic anticipation of pleasure and profit in reading it, but one lays it down with a feeling of disappointment.
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Paul and the Philosophers: Alain Badiou and the Event
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the reading of Paul offered by the contemporary French philosopher, Alain Badiou, which is supported by readings from Galatians, such that his philosophical notion of event, with its militant and universal effects, may claim real consonance with Paul.