This text is particularly helpful as an exposition of how this general theme develops in the work of scholars and topics of contemporary interest: Agamben, Assmann, Benjamin, Butler, Derrida, Ricouer, Scholem and Taubes ... All in all, this book will be of interest to philosophers and theologians working in the area of contemporary continental social theory associated with the work of Agamben and his circle.

Heythrop Journal

In this impressive new book, Dickinson sets forth a compelling agenda for a radical theological hermeneutics. With excellent and detailed readings of Agamben, Derrida, Benjamin, Ricoeur and Butler, <i>Between Canon and Messiah</i> reconfigures our map of contemporary philosophy and theology.

- Clayton Crockett, Associate Professor and Director of Religious Studies at the University of Central Arkansas, USA,