An Apostle for Atheists : Paul and the Quest for Radical Philosophy

Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud - canonized as two of the great pillars of the modern critique of religion - with Spinoza as one of their important predecessors. Confronting these readings with insights not only from the more recent philosophical readings of the apostle but also from historical-critical scholarship on the Bible, this book lifts the veil over a new picture of the apostle as a figure with potential value for non-Christians and atheists."An Apostle for Atheists" leaves us with ideas that compel us to reconsider Paul's negative reputation for secular modernity and appreciate him as a figure of a radically new politics as well as a renewed psychoanalysis. [Publisher's Text]

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