"Applying an ever more radical hermeneutics (including Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology, Derridian deconstruction, and feminism), John D. Caputo breaks down the name of God in this irrepressible book. Instead of looking at God as merely a name, Caputo views it as an event, or what the name conjures or promises in the future. For Caputo, the event exposes God as weak, unstable, and barely functional. While this view of God flies in the face of most religions and philosophies, it also puts up a serious challenge to fundamental tenets of theology and ontology. Along the way, Caputo's readings of the New Testament, especially of Paul's view of the Kingdom of God, help to support the ""weak force"" theory. This penetrating work cuts to the core of issues and questions-What is the nature of God? What is the nature of being? What is the relationship between God and being? What is the meaning of forgiveness, faith, piety, or transcendence?-that define the terrain of contemporary philosophy of religion."
By:
John D. Caputo
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 155mm,
Spine: 22mm
Weight: 526g
ISBN: 9780253218285
ISBN 10: 0253218284
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 27 April 2006
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
"Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: A Theology of the Event Part One. The Weakness of God 1. God without Sovereignty 2. St. Paul on the Logos of the Cross 3. The Beautiful Risk of Creation: On Genesis ad literam (Almost) 4. Omnipotence, Unconditionality, and the Weak Force of God Hermeneutical Interlude: Two Keys to the Kingdom 5. The Poetics of the Impossible 6. Hyper-Realism and the Hermeneutics of the Call Part Two. The Kingdom of God: Sketches of a Sacred Anarchy 7. Metanoetics: The Seventh Day, or Making All Things New 8. Quotidianism: Everyday, or Keeping Time Holy 9. Back to the Future: Peter Damian on the Remission of Sin and Changing the Past 10. Forgiven Time: The Pharisee and the Tax Collector 11. ""Lazarus, Come Out"": Rebirth and Resurrection 12. The Event of Hospitality: On Being Inside/Outside the Kingdom of God Appendix to Part Two: Newly Discovered Fragments on the Kingdom of God from ""The Gospel of Miriam"" A Concluding Prayer Notes Index"
John D. Caputo is the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University. He is author of More Radical Hermeneutics (IUP, 2000) and The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida (IUP, 1997).
Reviews for The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event
Caputo comes out of the closet as a theologian in this work... oCatherine Keller, Drew University
- Winner of 2007 AAR Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion,Constructive-Reflective Studies.
- Winner of 2007 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion,Constructive-Reflective Studies.
- Winner of 2007 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion,Constructive-Reflective Studies.
