Cross and Cosmos (eBook)

A Theology of Difficult Glory

John D. Caputo (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
306 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-04314-6 (ISBN)

Infos

1. In this newest book by popular theologian and philosopher Jack Caputo, Caputo explains and explores his radical theology of the cross, including a confrontation with its dark side, including its connection with lynching and racial and sexual discrimination.
2. Jack Caputo is a popular theologian. He is a luminary among academics and has a popular following.
3. The main audiences for this book will be students and scholars in philosophy and religion, but there will be general readers in religion who are already familiar with Caputo who will pick it up.

Readers will recognize Caputo's signature themes—hermeneutics, deconstruction, weakness, and the call—as well as his unique voice as he writes about moral life and our strivings for joy against contemporary society and politics.

Autor

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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. He is author of many books, including The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event, The Insistence of God: A Theology of Perhaps, Hoping Against Hope: Confessions of a Postmodern Pilgrim, and Truth: Philosophy in Transit.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction: A Completely Different Story, A Theologian Worthy of the Name

Part One: The Cross

1. The Weakness of God: A Radical Theology of the Cross

2. Wounded Glory, Victory in Defeat

3. From Luther to Derrida: A Note on an Unlikely Story

4. The Meaning of Suffering and Political Theology

5. The Cross and the Lynching Tree: The Politics of the Cross

6. From Theology to Theopoetics: An Excursus on Method in Theology

7. Phaenomenologia Crucis: From Transcendence to Transascendence

8. The Existance of God: Unconditional without Sovereignty

9. Deus Absconditus: A God who Deconstructs Himself in His Ipseity

10. The Protestant Principle

Interlude I: The Cloud of Anonymity

Part Two: The Cosmos

11. The Cosmic Cross: The Problem and the Mystery

12. Planetary Entanglement: Cusa, Keller and the Possibility of the Impossible

13. Cosmic Disentanglement: The Cross God Has to Bear

14. Saying What the Thing Is: On Onto-Hermeneutical Events

Interlude II: A Visit to the Planet of the Philosopher

15. Eros and Thanatos: When Love is Worthy of the Name

16. Difficult Glory: The Axial Affirmation

A Concluding Doxology

Index

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion
• Reihe/Serie: Philosophy of Religion
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Schlagworte: Cosmology • Lutheranism • Philosophy • poetics of the cross • Religion • Theology
• ISBN-10: 0-253-04314-X / 025304314X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-04314-6 / 9780253043146