"In establishing a series of insightful conceptual and textual links between modern historical and theoretical New Testament studies, Ward Blanton’s remarkable book, Displacing Christian Origins, opens up a new possibility of post-secular critical thinking. Blanton establishes unexpected and illuminating alliances between such key historical-hermeneutical Biblicists as Schleiermacher, Deissmann, and D.F. Strauss, on the one hand, and philosophers such as Hegel, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, on the other. Blanton’s thinking is informed throughout by questions of the relationship of religion and media—questions that derive in part from Heidegger, but take on compelling new forms in the light of recent work by Derrida, Weber, de Vries, Agamben, Badiou, and Zizek. Blanton’s book is a rigorous project of interdisciplinary reading, attuned to the nuances that both distinguish biblical and philosophical thinking and allow for their mutual illumination."