{"id":1331,"date":"2010-01-04T15:21:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T19:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2010-01-04T15:21:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T19:21:50","slug":"theology-for-atheists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/2010\/01\/theology-for-atheists\/","title":{"rendered":"Theology for Atheists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"The Guardian\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/static\/83728\/zones\/comment\/images\/logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"22\" \/>At the <em>Guardian<\/em> today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/belief\/2010\/jan\/04\/religion-atheism\/print\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;ve got a short bit<\/a> about secular, mainly Continental philosophers who, in recent years, have turned to theology:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Slavoj Zizek] is one of several leading thinkers in recent years who, though coming out of a deeply secular and often-Marxist bent, have made a turn toward theology. In 1997, Alain Badiou published a study of the apostle Paul, whom he took as an exemplar of his own influential philosophy of the &#8220;event&#8221;. Three years later, Giorgio Agamben responded in Italian with The Time That Remains, a painstaking exegesis of the first ten words of Paul&#8217;s Letter to the Romans. The purpose of both was not a more enlightened piety, but an inquiry into the texture of revolution. Paul is significant to them because he ushered in, and in the process described, a genuinely transformational social movement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"The Guardian\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/static\/83728\/zones\/comment\/images\/logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"22\" \/>At the <em>Guardian<\/em> today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/belief\/2010\/jan\/04\/religion-atheism\/print\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;ve got a short bit<\/a> about secular, mainly Continental philosophers who, in recent years, have turned to theology:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Slavoj Zizek] is one of several leading thinkers in recent years who, though coming out of a deeply secular and often-Marxist bent, have made a turn toward theology. In 1997, Alain Badiou published a study of the apostle Paul, whom he took as an exemplar of his own influential philosophy of the &#8220;event&#8221;. Three years later, Giorgio Agamben responded in Italian with The Time That Remains, a painstaking exegesis of the first ten words of Paul&#8217;s Letter to the Romans. The purpose of both was not a more enlightened piety, but an inquiry into the texture of revolution. Paul is significant to them because he ushered in, and in the process described, a genuinely transformational social movement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37,19,26,82,88],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-atheism","tag-metaphor","tag-new-religious-movements","tag-politics","tag-secularism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}