Caputo In Search of Radical Theology

Expositions, Explorations, Exhortations
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8921-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

This sparkling collection of essays invites readers to join a seasoned scholar on his journey to catch “radical theology" in action, both in the church and our culture at large.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Caputo, John D.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface xi

Introduction: What Is Radical Theology? 1

1 Tradition and Event: Radicalizing the Catholic Principle 29

2 Proclaiming the Year of the Jubilee: Thoughts on a Spectral Life 45

3 Derrida and the Trace of Religion 77

4 Augustine and Postmodernism 94

5 On Not Settling for an Abridged Edition of Postmodernism: Radical Hermeneutics as Radical Theology 109

6 Unprotected Religion: Radical Theology, Radical Atheism, and the Return of Anti-Religion 125

7 Forget Rationality—Is There Religious Truth? 151

8 Radical Theologians, Knights of Faith, and the Future of the Philosophy of Religion 165

9 Theology in Trumptime: The Insistence of America 185

10 Hoping against Hope: The Possibility of the Impossible 189

Like a Devilish Knight of Faith: A Concluding Quasi-Theological Postscript 203

Acknowledgments 207

Notes 209

Index 241

Über Autor(innen)

Caputo John D.:

John D. Caputo is Thomas J. Watson Professor Emeritus of Religion at Syracuse University and David R. Cook Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Villanova University. His most recent book is In Search of Radical Theology.John D. Caputo is Thomas J. Watson Professor Emeritus of Religion at Syracuse University and David R. Cook Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Villanova University. His many books include most recently Cross and Cosmos: A Theology of Difficult Glory (Indiana, 2019); Hermeneutics: Facts and Interpretation in the Age of Information (Penguin UK, 2018); Hoping against Hope: Confessions of a Postmodern Pilgrim (Fortress, 2015); and The Folly of God: A Theology of the Unconditional (Polebridge, 2015).