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The Return of the Katechon: Giorgio Agamben contra Erik Peterson*

The Italian philosopher and philologist Giorgio Agamben, in his recently published book, “The Kingdom and the Glory,” seizes on the above slogan by the sociologist of religion Ernst Troeltsch. Evidently, he wants to reopen the office. Therefore, he must expose the patterns and presuppositions that prevent such a reopening. The reader should not be surprised then that instead of the bedazzling light of Utopia, he finds himself being lead into the gloomy depths of European conceptual history. It is obvious that the philologist who offers himself as the guide through this labyrinth of extraordinarily convoluted subterranean paths is in the service of the restored eschatology. The eschatologist, however, in his subversive excursions, actually has his eye on a dramatic confrontation, namely, with the doorkeeper who refuses him entry into the coveted office. This doorkeeper is none other than the “katechon,” that mysterious figure mentioned by the Apostle Paul in 2 Thessalonians 2, who delays the coming of the end time and the heavenly kingdom. It is a question, then, of tracking down this katechon in the caves. He