Derrida insists that any effort to think theological–political power “in its possibility” must begin with the death penalty. In this paper, I revisit the death of Moses Paul, “an Indian,” executed in New Haven in 1772 for the murder of Moses Cook, a white man. The Mohegan minister Samson Occom delivered Paul’s execution sermon and accompanied him to the gallows. Revised, Occom’s sermon was one of the first works published by a Native American author in English. Occom suggests there can be a theological–political power that signals itself not by decreeing the death penalty, but by opposing it. Hence sovereignty can be thought, with and against Derrida, as the theologico-political power to restore life. By opposing death to grace, moreover, Occom achieves a division of sovereignties, creating an opening for Indigenous nations within the scaffolding of the settler state. Working in collaboration, then, Occom and Paul produce a political theology.

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摩西的死亡：死刑和主权的分裂

德里达坚持认为，任何努力去思考神学 - 政治权力“在其可能性”，必须以死刑开始。在本文中，我重温摩西保罗的死亡，“一个印度人，”摩西厨师，一名白人男子的谋杀在1772年纽黑文执行。金神大赌场部长萨姆森·奥科姆交付保罗的执行讲道并陪同他绞刑。修订，Occom的讲道是由英国一个美国本土作家出版了第一部作品之一。Occom建议可以有神学 - 政治权力是信号本身没有被下令死刑，但反对它。因此，主权可以认为，与反对德里达，作为神学 - 政治权力，以恢复生活。通过对抗死亡之恩，而且，Occom实现主权的分裂，创建沉淀状态的脚手架内的土著民族的开口。然后，奥科姆和保罗合作产生了一种政治神学。