While they sometimes seem skittish about using the Pauline archive themselves, the basic paradox here is just what Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala explore as a form of (to mention the title of their book) Hermeneutical Communism. Heidegger, they write, “noticed how every statement, whether true or false, valid or invalid, good or evil, is always a derivative one, since the ‘apophantic as’ is only possible within the ‘hermeneutic’ as.” Generally preceded by, and therefore repeating, a disclosive or founding revelatory event, most of our oriented thinking operates as an effect of a (hidden or absent) cause