The European Reception of John D. Caputo’s Thought : Radicalizing Theology

This book gathers the European reception of John. D. Caputo's proposal for a radical theology of our time. Philosophers and theologians from within Europe respond to Caputo's attempt to configure a less rigid, less dogmatic form of religion. These scholars, in turn, receive responses by Caputo. This volume so aims to strengthen the development of radical theology in Europe and abroad. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments John D. Caputo’s Radical Theology in Europe Weak and Radical Theology: Caputo in Europe Radical Theology and Politics Radical Theology and the Tragic Versus Hope and Love Radical Theology and Christianity Radical Theology within Theology and Philosophy Notes Bibliography Part I: Radical Theology and Politics Chapter 1: Radical Theology as Political Theology: Exploring the Fragments of God’s Weak Power Fragment 1: Speculations Fragment 2: God’s Weak Power Fragment 3: Political Theology of the Messianic Concluding Fragment: The Cosmological Reduction Notes Bibliography Response to Ullrich Notes Bibliography Chapter 2: A Radical Fidelity: John D. Caputo and the Future of Religion The Interruption of Theology The Last and the Least of the Faithful Flypaper Anxiety The Question of Love Notes Bibliography Response to Chabbert Notes Bibliography Chapter 3: Is It Radical Enough?: The Ethical Call of Caputo’s Theopoetics to Stick to the Difficulty of Life in Light of Black Lives Matter Setting the Stage: An Introduction to Black Lives Matter as a Movement of Protest Caputo’s Theopoetics of Powerlessness Theopoetics as a Theological Variation of Caputo’s Radical Hermeneutics Theopoetics Is the Insistence of a Call A Chiasmic Intertwining: The Powerless Power of Poetic Making Caputo’s Theopoetics in Light of Black Lives Matter: Is It Radical Enough? The Potential of Caputo’s Theopoetics: The Obligation of the Call The Limitation: The Body Is Political Notes Bibliography Response to Damen Part II: Radical Theology and the Tragic versus Hope and Love Chapter 4: The Foolish Call of Love Notes Bibliography Response to Pattison Notes Bibliography Chapter 5: From Kenosis to Kenoma: The Enigma of a Place in Derrida and Caputo Another Gift: Giving-Place, Letting-Be Another Creation: God without God The Antinomian Vertigo: “Extremes Meet” Beyond Kenosis: Retreat, Not a Fall Notes Bibliography Response to Bielik-Robson Notes Bibliography Chapter 6: A Post-Belief Europe and the Offer of John Caputo Notes Bibliography Response to French and Taylor Note Bibliography Part III: Radical Theology and Christianity Chapter 7: The Call and the Cross in Caputo and Bultmann An Indestructible and Unconditional Call of the Event A Call of the World which Is Bound to End Unconditional or without Why? Bultmann’s Credit Conclusion Notes Bibliography Response to Benjamins Notes Bibliography Chapter 8: Caputo and the Unidentifiability of God A Theological Style of His Own The Claim on Ourselves The Caller Who May or May Not Be Trusted The Insistence of the Caller The End of Providence Against Piety The Weakness of God God’s Livingness and Dogmatic Theology Incarnation as Dynamite Final Remarks Notes Bibliography Response to Chalamet Notes Bibliography Chapter 9: God—the Opportunity for Continued Discontent Experience Prayer Event A Constructive Critical Conclusion: Experiencing the Semper Major, Contingency, and Impossibility Notes Bibliography Response to Henriksen Part IV: Radical Theology within Theology and Philosophy Chapter 10: Radical Theology’s Place within Theology Caputo’s Three Principles: A Radical Theology in Medias Res Theopoetics as Theopraxis: Radical Theology’s Mechanics What Radical Theology Does as a Theology An Open-Ended Conclusion Notes Bibliography Response to Sands Notes Bibliography Chapter 11: Keeping Weakness Weak to Make It Strong: Caputo’s Theopoetics of Event Gianni Vattimo John D. Caputo No Ontology No Ethics Theology Then, Perhaps? If It Is Theopoetics Closing Remarks Notes Bibliography Response to Meganck Notes Bibliography Chapter 12: Hospitality in Action: A Question for Practical Theology? Notes Bibliography Response to Renaud-Grosbras Notes Bibliography Chapter 13: Care and Decay: A Phenomenology of the Queer Body (with Constant Reference to the HIV-Positive Flesh) Queerness Decay Indignity Care Notes Bibliography Response to Cassidy-Deketelaere Notes Bibliography Index About the Editors and Contributors About the Editors About the Contributors This book explores Caputo’s proposal for a radical theology of our time. Philosophers and theologians from within Europe respond to Caputo's attempt to configure a less rigid, less dogmatic form of religion. These scholars, in turn, receive responses by Caputo, therebystrengthening the development of radical theology in Europe and abroad.