CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction

The Freedom of Radical Theology After the Death of God

1. The Parallax of Religion

Theology and Ideology

2. Sovereignty and the Weakness of God

3. Baruch Spinoza and the Potential for a Radical Political Theology

4. Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, and the Theo-Political Problem of Liberalism

5. Elements for Radical Democracy

Plasticity, Equality, Governmentality

6. Law Beyond Law

Agamben, Deleuze, and the Unconscious Event

7. Radical Theology and the Event

St. Paul with Deleuze

8. Plasticity and the Future of Theology

Messianicity and the Deconstruction of Christianity

Conclusion

Six Theses on Political Theology

NOTES

INDEX