To say that Paul shifted "the center of gravity of life out of life into the 'Beyond'--into Nothingness," and that in so doing he "deprived life as such of its centre of gravity" (The Anti-Christ, §43), is to maintain the very opposite of the apostle's teaching, for whom it is here and now that life takes revenges on death, here and now that we can live affirmatively, according to the spirit, rather than negatively, according to the flesh, which is the thought of death. For Paul, the Resurrection is that on the basis of which life's center of gravity resides in life, whereas previously, being situated in the Law, it organized life's subsumption by death.
- Alain Badiou, Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism (Stanford University Press, 2003), 61-62.
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