{"product_id":"displacing-christian-origins-ward-blanton-9780226056906","title":"Displacing Christian Origins: Philosophy, Secularity, and the New Testament","description":"Recent critical theory is curiously preoccupied with the metaphors and ideas of early Christianity, especially the religion of Paul. The haunting of secular thought by the very religion it seeks to overcome may seem surprising at first, but Ward Blanton argues that this recent return by theorists to the resources of early Christianity has precedent in modern and ostensibly secularizing philosophy, from Kant to Heidegger. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDisplacing Christian Origins\u003c\/i\u003e traces the current critical engagement of Agamben, Derrida, and Zizek, among others, back into nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century philosophers of early Christianity. By comparing these crucial moment\u003cb\u003es\u003c\/b\u003e in the modern history of philosophy with exemplars of modern biblical scholarship--David Friedrich Strauss, Adolf Deissmann, and Albert Schweitzer--Blanton offers a new way for critical theory to construe the relationship between the modern past and the biblical traditions to which we seem to be drawn once again. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn innovative contribution to the intellectual history of biblical exegesis, \u003ci\u003eDisplacing Christian Origins\u003c\/i\u003e will promote informed and fruitful debate between religion and philosophy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ward Blanton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226056902\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226056906\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.87h x 6.16w x 0.51d","brand":"Ward Blanton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086390178047,"sku":"9780226056906","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_89a3c43b-cc00-4081-9acb-e481814761cb.jpg?v=1769094403","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/displacing-christian-origins-ward-blanton-9780226056906","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}