當代保羅復興在政治和哲學中對保羅進行了「非宗教的閱 讀」，展示了歷史唯物主義和基督教神學聯手面對新羅馬帝國 的政治神學圖景。與傳統保羅神學經由十字架事件實現從律法 到恩典的轉換對應，當代保羅復興強調的是經由彌賽亞式的事 件，實現從存在到事件、從自然秩序到普紐瑪秩序的轉換，從 而對統治話語進行價值重估。在這一革命性的轉換過程中，形 成了具有生命主權的新主體、保羅式的唯物主義者。這些主體 具有新的政治生活模態，譬如沒有X的X、不是..而是、要像 不、反向，他們可以扭轉律法全面統治的政治神學狀況。

Contemporary Saint Paul Renaissance, a non-religious reading of Paxil in tlie field of politics and philosophy, presents a political theolog5^ image of the alliance of historical materialism and Christian theology marshalled against the new Roman Empire. In traditional Paialine theology, the heart of the theological doctiine lies within the transformation from law to grace dirough belief in Chrises crucifixion and resurrection. Correspondingly, in Saint Paul Renaissance discourse, the heart of the political theology lies within the transformation firom being to event, from nature order to pnuema order through the messianic event, and it leads to the reevaluation of the dominating discourses of capitalism. The new human subjects, who own the sovereignty of life, come into being during this revolutionary transformation. These subjects, as Pauline materialists, follow the new mode of political life, such as without, not..but, as not, pen^erse. The}^ can reformulate the political theology situation which had been completely dominated by the discourse of law