Adam Kotsko (born 1980) is an American theologian, religious scholar, culture critic, and translator, working in the field of political theology.

Adam Kotsko was born on July 19, 1980,[citation needed] in Flint, Michigan, and grew up in nearby Davison.

[3][4] Kotsko earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Illinois, in 2002.

[3][5] From there, he went on to the Chicago Theological Seminary (CTS), where he completed a Master of Arts degree in religious studies in 2005, with a thesis in the form of a translation and commentary on Jacques Derrida's essay "Literature in Secret: An Impossible Filiation".

[14] His other works include The Politics of Redemption: The Social Logic of Salvation[15] and a translation of Giorgio Agamben's The Sacrament of Language: An Archaeology of the Oath.