Ward Blanton is reader in biblical cultures and European thought at the University of Kent in Canterbury and the author of Displacing Christian Origins: Philosophy, Secularity, and the New Testament and A Materialism for the Masses: Saint Paul and the Philosophy of Undying Life and is co-editor of Jesus Beyond Nationalism: Constructing the Historical Jesus in a Period of Cultural Complexity, Paul and the Philosophers, and A Radical Philosophy of Saint Paul.