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In this bold and provocative [[work]], [[French ]] [[philosopher ]] [[Alain ]] [[Badiou ]] proposes a startling reinterpretation of St. [[Paul]]. For Badiou, Paul is neither the venerable saint embalmed by [[Christian ]] [[tradition]], nor the venomous priest execrated by [[philosophers ]] like [[Nietzsche]]: he is instead a profoundly original and still revolutionary thinker whose invention of [[Christianity ]] weaves [[truth ]] and [[subjectivity ]] together in a way that continues to be relevant for us today.

In this work, Badiou argues that Paul delineates a new [[figure ]] of the [[subject]]: the bearer of a [[universal ]] truth that simultaneously shatters the strictures of Judaic Law and the conventions of the Greek [[Logos]]. Badiou shows that the [[Pauline ]] figure of the subject still harbors a genuinely revolutionary potential today: the subject is that which refuses to submit to the [[order ]] of the [[world ]] as we [[know ]] it and struggles for a new one instead.