Badiou and Theology (Paperback)

Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction: Alain Badiou, Theology and the Political
1. Christianity and the Modern Passion for the New
2. The Theological Promise of Alain Badiou
3. The Threefold 'Death' of God: Badiou's Challenge to Theology
4. Aim and Scope of the Present Volume

Chapter 1: Faith and the Existence of God
1. Religion and Faith: Terminological Clarifications
a. Religion
b. Faith
b.1. Dei Filius on Faith
b.2. Thomas Aquinas on Faith
b.3. Conclusion

c. Conclusion

2. The Existence of God Revisited
a. The Closed Circle of Faith: An Example
b. An Analysis of Existential Statements in General
c. An Analysis of the Statement 'God Exists'
d. Aquinas's Understanding of Being and the Being of God
e. In Conclusion

Chapter 2: Badiou on Being
1. The Mathematical Turn
2. Ontology: Theory of the Pure Multiple
3. Ontology: Theory of the Void
a. Introducing the Issue of Zero
b. The Multiple of Nothing
c. The Void
d. Theory of the Void

4. The Actual Infinite
5. In Conclusion

Chapter 3: First Steps Towards a Future Theological Evaluation of Badiou's Ontology
1. Aquinas on God's Infinity and Unity
2. Cantor on Aquinas, Origen and Augustine on the Mathematical Infinite
3. Cantor on the Absolute
4. God's Infinity and Unity Revisited in the Context of Set Theory

Bibliography

Index

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