What to Believe? - Twelve Brief Lessons in Radical Theology

In this lively and accessible book, addressed to believers, "recovering" believers, disbelievers, nonbelievers, and "nones" alike-to anyone in search of what they really do believe-the acclaimed philosopher and theologian John D. Caputo seeks out what there is to believe, with or without religion.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
This Is How the World Began
First Week
Lesson One: God Does Not Exist
Lesson Two: Bridge-Builders and Ground-Diggers
Lesson Three: That's Pantheism, That's Horrible
Lesson Four: Do Radical Theologians Pray?
Lesson Five: The Mystical Sense of Life
Lesson Six: Who Do They Say Jesus Is?
Second Week
Lesson Seven: Suppose Everything Just Vanished?
Lesson Eight: What Is Really Going On?
Lesson Nine: What Is Going On in the Name of God?
Lesson Ten: Whether God Will Have Been
Lesson Eleven: Making Ourselves Worthy of What Is Happening to Us
Lesson Twelve: So What?
A Parting Word (or Two): Yes, Yes
Further Reading
Index

About the author

John D. Caputo is the Thomas J. Watson Professor Emeritus of Religion and Humanities at Syracuse University and the David R. Cook Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Villanova University. His many books include What Would Jesus Deconstruct? The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church (2007), Hoping Against Hope: Confessions of a Postmodern Pilgrim (2015), and The Folly of God: A Theology of the Unconditional (2015).

Summary

In this lively and accessible book, addressed to believers, “recovering” believers, disbelievers, nonbelievers, and “nones” alike—to anyone in search of what they really do believe—the acclaimed philosopher and theologian John D. Caputo seeks out what there is to believe, with or without religion.

Product details

• Authors: John D. Caputo, John D. (Thomas J. Watson Professor of Rel Caputo
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.08.2023
• EAN: 9780231210959
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21095-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; RELIGION / Spirituality, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Theology, RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Atheism, RELIGION / Agnosticism, Theology, Spirituality & religious experience, Philosophy of religion, Spirituality and religious experience, Agnosticism and atheism, Agnosticism & Atheism, religion; philosophy