Crockett, Clayton. Review of Frederiek Depoortere, BADIOU AND THEOLOGY. NDPR (June 2010).

Depoortere, Frederiek. Badiou and Theology. London: Continuum, 2009. Despite Badiou's professed atheism, there are a number of ways that his philosophy can be related to theology. The value of Depoortere's book is that it is not simply a survey but a constructive engagement with Badiou's thought, centered on his set-theoretic ontology. This value, however, is also a limitation, because Depoortere's overall engagement is somewhat idiosyncratic and incoherent, as I will discuss below. After an introduction that provides helpful context for reading Badiou in terms of Christian theology, the rest of the book consists of three fascinating but uneven chapters. The body of the book represents an attempt to articulate, justify and defend a proof of God's existence in both traditional Thomistic and modern set-theoretical terms, over against Badiou's atheistic interpretation of set-theoretic ontology. . . . Read the whole review here: http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=19847.