Clandestine Theology: A Non-Philosopher's Confession of Faith
Ebook
In this new translation, Laruelle offers a serious and rigorous challenge to contemporary theological thought, calling into question the dominant understanding of the relation between Christ, theology, and philosophy, not only from a theoretical, but also political perspective.
He achieves this through an inversion of St Paul's reading of Christ, through which the ground for Christianity shifts. It is no longer the 'event' of the resurrection, as philosophical and theological operation (Badiou's St Paul), so much as the Risen Himself that forms the starting point for a non-philosophical confession. Between the Greek and the Jew, Laruelle places the Gnostic-Christ in order to disrupt and overturn such theologico-philosophical interpretations of the resurrection and set the Risen within the radical immanence of Man-in-Person.
Forming the basis for a non-Christianity, Clandestine Theology offers a more radical deconstruction of Christianity, resting upon the last identity of Man and the humanity of Christ as opposed to endless deferral or difference (Nancy) or the universalising economy of Ideas and Events (Badiou).
In this new translation, Laruelle calls into question the dominant understanding of the relation between Christ, theology, and philosophy to offer a serious and rigorous challenge to contemporary theological thought.
Francois Laruelle is widely considered to be one of the most important and exciting voices in contemporary French philosophy. Known for his theory of 'non-philosophy', his profile and influence have increased significantly in recent years, yet much of his work has still not been published in translation
Beyond Laruelle's famous non-philosophy, this crucial text forms the basis for a "non-Christianity", in which Laruelle moves the focus away from resurrection itself towards the Risen Christ and his humanity
Includes a new preface written for the English translation by Anne-Françoise Schmid, The New Centre for Research & Practice, USA
Introduction
1. Faith and Belief
2. The Gospels: Models for Non-Christianity
3. Surviving Scripture, Glorious Scripture
4. Dualysis of the Trinity
5. A Clandestine Non-Religion
Laruelle's questioning of the dualistic arbitrariness of all philosophies inevitably returns us to a monism that is theological, and an immediacy of experience that is religious. His consequent 'clandestine' engagement with Christianity is a provocation that no contemporary theologian should ignore.
Clandestine Theology is the latest work of one of the most important and radical philosophers today. François Laruelle has radicalized philosophy by ridding it of its principle of self-sufficiency and by bringing it back to its metaphysical roots and simultaneously closer to the practice and posture of scientific thought. His theology is a surprising yet perfectly consistent part of his entire non-philosophical project also called the non-standard philosophy.
- Title: Clandestine Theology: A Non-Philosopher's Confession of Faith
- Authors: Francois Laruelle, Andrew Sackin-Poll
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781350104297, 9781350104310, 1350104310, 1350104299
- Resource ID: LLS:9781350104297
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-11T00:18:32Z
François Laruelleis a French philosopher formerly Professor of Contemporary Philosophy at the Université de Paris X (Nanterre) and the Collège International de Philosophie, France. He is the creator of the concept of 'non-philosophy' and author of over twenty works of philosophy.
Andrew Sackin-Poll is a doctoral researcher in the French Department of the University of Cambridge, UK, under the direction of Dr Ian James and Prof Catherine Pickstock. He has translated works by Jean-Louis Chrétien, Emmanuel Falque and Michel Henry.