“…This is not the place to comment on Agamben's reading of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI nor to contextualise both thinkers' reflection on the notion of katéchon that played a crucial role in political thought in the Weimar Republic and the 1930s under the influence of the jurist Carl Schmitt and his critique, the theologian Erik Peterson. It suffices to say that Agamben's reading is possibly more Schmittian than he may have liked and that it does not do justice to the young Ratzinger's reflection on the exegesis of the fourth-century North-African theologian Tyconius on 2 Thessalonians 2, 1-8, where katéchon is mentioned twice (Staub 2017).…”