Outlaw Justice: The Messianic Politics of Paul

Theodore W. Jennings, Jr.

Outlaw Justice: The Messianic Politics of Paul
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Country
United States
Published
17 April 2013
Pages
256
ISBN
9780804785167

Outlaw Justice: The Messianic Politics of Paul

Theodore W. Jennings, Jr.

This book offers a close reading of Romans that treats Paul as a radical political thinker by showing the relationship between Paul’s perspective and that of secular political theorists. Turning to both ancient political philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero) and contemporary post-Marxists (Agamben, Badiou, Derrida, and Zizek), Jennings presents Romans as a sustained argument for a new sort of political thinking concerned with the possibility and constitution of just socialities.

Reading Romans as an essay on messianic politics in conversation with ancient and postmodern political theory challenges the stereotype of Paul as a reactionary theologian who invented Christianity and demonstrates his importance for all, regardless of religious affiliation or academic guild, who dream and work for a society based on respect, rather than domination, division, and death. In the current context of unjust global empires constituted by avarice, arrogance, and violence, Jennings finds in Paul a stunning vision for creating just societies outside the law.

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