In Search of Radical Theology - Expositions, Explorations, Exhortations

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

John D. Caputo

Product details

• Authors: John D Caputo, John D. Caputo
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9780823289189
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-8918-9
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Perspectives in Continental Ph; Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous