Such a philological investigation was later undertaken by David Flusser, who concluded
that while Buber’s etymological distinction between pistis and emunah was invalid, his “basic
position” is correct if considered to describe an internal Christian problem (the problem of the
faith of Jesus versus the faith in Jesus). Flusser, afterword to Two Types of Faith, 175–235.
Taubes, Political Theology of Paul, 10.
Ibid., 39, 47.
Taubes understands that Schmitt recognizes the same problematic as he does but re-
sponds in the opposite manner; ibid., 103.
Excepting Freud for the moment, a “direct descendant of Paul” through his grappling
with guilt; ibid., 89.
Ibid., 75.
Ibid., 54.
Walter Benjamin, “Theological-Political Fragment,” in Walter Benjamin: Selected Writ-
ings, vol. 3, 1935–1938, trans. Edmund Jephcott et al., ed. Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jen-
nings (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), 305–306.
Taubes, Political Theology of Paul, 71.
Ibid., 76.
Giorgio Agamben, The Time That Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans,
trans. Patricia Dailey (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005), 62.
Ibid., 61.
Ibid., 69. Agamben’s vague reference to “a view fairly widespread in Judaism” depends
problematically on Scholem’s “Toward an Understanding of the Messianic Idea.”
Ibid., 76. Pleroma of kairoi means something like “the fullness of times.”
Agamben refers to Flusser’s recontextualization of Buber’s distinction as a problem in
Christianity; ibid., 125–126.
Ibid., 27.
Ibid., 23.
Ibid., 23–24.
Walter Benjamin, “On the Concept of History,” in Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings,
vol. 4, 1938–1940, trans. Edmund Jephcott et al., eds. Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings
(Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006), 389.
Walter Benjamin, Über den Begriff der Geschichte, Walter Benjamin Werke und Nachlaß
Kritische Gesamtausgabe 19, ed. Gérard Raulet (Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2010), 16, 59.
Agamben, Time That Remains, 83.
But see Brian Britt, “The Schmittian Messiah in Agamben’s The Time That Remains,”
Critical Inquiry 36 (Winter 2010): 262–287.
Agamben, Time That Remains, 33.
Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception, trans. Kevin Attell (Chicago: University of Chi-
cago Press, 2005), 64; Britt, “The Schmittian Messiah,” 268; cf. Agamben, Time That Remains,
69–70, 145.
Alain Badiou, Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism, trans. Ray Brassier (Stan-
ford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003), 2. Cf. Slavoj Žižek, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The
Perverse Core of Christianity (Boston: MIT Press, 2003), 130.
