BECOMING WHOSOEVER: REEXAMINING PAULINE UNIVERSALISM
Mika Ojakangas
ABSTRACT
In my article I examine, on the one hand, the emergence of the idea of universal natural law in Greek antiquity and especially in Roman Stoic thought. On the other hand, I compare this philosophical universalism (universalism of logos/ratio) with Christian and especially Pauline universalism. I argue that the Pauline conception of universalism is very different from the philosophical understanding of it. It is not a category that transcends particular cultures and identities in the name of universal principles (as in Greek and Stoic thought) but rather a category that denotes a process of rupture of all principles (nomos, arche, and so on).
KEYWORDS
Paul; universalism; Alain Badiou; Greek philosophy
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