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<b>Joshua Delpech-Ramey</b>:&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; You seem to see in Paul's works&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; For Badiou, Paul articulates a general structure of universality.&nbsp; But how separable is Paul's gesture in founding Christianity from the particularities of Christianity itself?&nbsp;&nbsp; How general are the lessons one can learn from Paul?&nbsp;&nbsp; Can or should those lessons be separated out, as form from content, from their particularity as aspects of the history of Christianity, itself?&nbsp;&nbsp; Or are the particularities of Christianity somehow, of the essence of this gesture?<br><br>