The paradoxes of Lucien Goldmann
The dialectic of grace
The elect and the damned
Wagering it all
In the world and yet not
Theory : the tight fit of homology
Homology
Dialectics?
Is Pascal among the Marxists?
By way of conclusion : Marxism as a secular and anti-secular project
The stumbling block of Fredric Jameson
Supersession versus a dialectic of ideology and utopia
Sidestepping religion
Magic and fantasy
Feuerbach versus Marx
The politics of fantasy
Apocalyptic
By way of conclusion : towards a dialectic of religion
The Christian communism of Rosa Luxemburg
Tactics
A reformer's zeal
Betraying the spirit
A little church history
Anti-clericalism
Christian communism
Consumption versus production
Completing Cristian communism
Freedom of conscience
The enticements of Karl Kautsky
Text, history, context
The slipperiness of sacred texts
The Bible as a cultural product
Reconstructing economic history
Differentiation and slaves
Slaves and other modes of production
The sacred economy : prolegomena to a reconstruction
Transitions
Christian communism
The forgetfulness of Julia Kristeva
Flushing out Marx
Monocausality, or, the taboo of the mother
The apostle, both ways
Other-than-human love
Crucifying the pathologies
Collectives
The fables of Alain Badiou
Banishing the one
Theology and the event
A generic procedure of religion?
Pascal's miracle
Kierkegaard's encounter
Paul's fable
Conclusion : necessary fables
The conundrums of Giorgio Agamben
The search for Paul
Christology, or the problem of Jesus Messiah
Faith, law and grace as placeholder of the void
Pre-law, or trying to make sense of Paul
Conclusion : relativising theology
The self-exorcism of Georg Lukács
A world abandoned by God
Leap-frogging Christianity
Autobiographical exorcism
The Bible and the beekeeper's manual
An apparent absence?
Warm Marxism
Autobiography
Welshness
The working class
Conclusion : the vanishing mediator of the Baptist chapel.