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{{BSZISZ}}* "[[On Divine Self-Limitation and Revolutionary Love|An Interview with Slavoj Žižek: 'On Divine Self-Limitation and Revolutionary Love]]". ''Journal of Philosophy and Scripture''. Volume 1, Issue 2. Spring 2004. Joshua Delpech-Ramey. <http://www.philosophyandscripture.org/Issue1-2/Slavoj_Zizek/slavoj_zizek.html>
<b>Joshua Delpech-Ramey</b>: Of late, the writings of St. Paul have become for you, as well as for Alain Badiou and Giorgio Agamben, a touchstone for radical thought. You seem to see in Paul's works something of a revolutionary manual, and in the founding of the community of believers a supreme example of the structure and effect of an authentic revolutionary act. For Badiou, Paul articulates a general structure of universality. But how separable is Paul's gesture in founding Christianity from the particularities of Christianity itself? How general are the lessons one can learn from Paul? Can or should those lessons be separated out, as form from content, from their particularity as aspects of the history of Christianity, itself? Or are the particularities of Christianity somehow, of the essence of this gesture?<br><br>