Gert-Jan van de Heiden, Saint Paul and Contemporary European Philosophy: The Outcast and the Spirit – Edinburgh University Press, paperback May 2025 (print and open access)

Offers a new systematic account of the philosophical potential of Saint Paul’s letters

• Shows the present-day philosophical importance of the letters of the founder of Christianity
• Argues that important ontological problems concerning dualism, nihilism and the event appear in an unexpected light when read through a Pauline lens
• Shows a new philosophical appraisal of the Pauline conception of faith in terms of an art of living
• Offers a new systematic approach to the intriguing present-day philosophical turn to the Letters of Saint Paul in the works of Heidegger, Taubes, Badiou, Agamben and Zizek
• Discusses how Saint Paul allows philosophers to rethink the notions of law and community giving rise to a new type of political philosophy

The re-examination of Saint Paul’s letters in contemporary European philosophy is one of the most important developments at the crossroads of philosophy and theology today.