described in the introduction) that Nietzsche failed to capitalize on the radicality of his critique of Paulinism precisely to the degree that he failed to become Paul. We should take the comparative problematic seriously. Mutually displaced by the elusive solicitations of an underground current of materialism, Paul and ourselves would participate in an oddly secret sharing that needs to be made clearer. As I have already begun to suggest with my little testimonia book, one way to unfold this tale is to consider Pauline klēsis or calling as a mode of Epicurean parenklisis, translated by Lucretius into Latin as clinamen, a tilt or swerve that is intimately linked to important recent efforts to imagine both the materiality of our being in the world and also the peculiarly open or contingent ground of our emancipatory hope.