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    The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event

    By John D. Caputo

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndiana University Press
    Release dateApr 27, 2006
    ISBN9780253013514
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    The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event
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    John D. Caputo

    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.

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      You don't often encounter a humble scholar, or even one who fakes it well, and that by itself is enough to recommend this book. But there's more.I can't say I know yet what to make of this thing, but started out reading it for (amateur) scholarly reasons and ended up reading for pleasure, without pencil, highlighter, sticky-notes or notebook, and not wanting it to end like you don't want a good novel to end. Except this one I can read again. With a thorough background in Heidegger, Kierkegaard, Jewish and Christian Bibles, Husserl Nietzsche--not so much Derrida and I had never heard of Levinas--I came in pretty well armed but pretty soon just threw away everything I thought I knew and went along for the ride. It was a good ride. I have no idea if anything in it is true, I don't have any idea if there is a single verifiable assertion in it, but it's a trip you should take.Without a pretty good knowledge of "strong theology" and Continental philosophy of the last hundred years or so this volume might make no sense at all and might not be any fun to read, be warned, but if you have a little of that background and like to see idols toppled (or windmills tilted at, I'm not sure which) pick this ont up. I've been swimming in that cold philosophical sea for decades even long after losing all hope I would find what I sought and this has made me dive in anew, and deeper and with the same sense of fun and coming good times I has as an undergraduate, decades ago.