EAN: 9781503602731

THE MYSTERY OF EVIL - GIORGIO AGAMBEN KARTONIER...

In 2013  Benedict XVI became only the second pope in the history of the Catholic Church to
resign from office. In this brief but illuminating study  Giorgio Agamben argues that
Benedict's gesture  far from being solely a matter of internal ecclesiastical politics  is
exemplary in an age when the question of legitimacy has been virtually left aside in favor of a
narrow focus on legality. This reflection on the recent history of the Church opens out into an
analysis of one of the earliest documents of Christianity: the Second Epistle to the
Thessalonians  which stages a dramatic confrontation between the man of lawlessness and the
enigmatic katechon  the power that holds back the end of days. In Agamben's hands  this
infamously obscure passage reveals the theological dynamics of history that continue to inform
Western culture to this day.

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