Profaning Paul Concannon Cavan W.
A critical reconsideration of the repeated use of the biblical letters of Paul.The letters of Paul have been used to support and condone a host of evils over the span of more than two millennia:…
Specifikacia Profaning Paul Concannon Cavan W.
A critical reconsideration of the repeated use of the biblical letters of Paul.The letters of Paul have been used to support and condone a host of evils over the span of more than two millennia: racism, slavery, imperialism, misogyny, and anti-Semitism, to name a few. Despite, or in some cases because of, this history, readers of Paul have felt compelled to reappropriate his letters to fit liberal or radical politics, seeking to set right the evils done in Paul's name. Starting with the language of excrement, refuse, and waste in Paul's letters, Profaning Paul looks at how Paul's "shit" is recycled and reconfigured. It asks why readers, from liberal Christians to academic biblical scholars to political theorists and philosophers, feel compelled to make Paul into a hero, mining his words for wisdom. Following the lead of feminist, queer, and minoritized scholarship,