Theopoetic Folds: Philosophizing Multifariousness (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

In complex philosophical ways, theology is, should, and can be a “theopoetics” of multiplicity. The ambivalent term theopoetics is associated with poetry and aesthetic theory; theology and literature; and repressed literary qualities, myths, and metaphorical theologies. On a more profound basis, it questions the establishment of the difference between philosophy and theology and resides in the dangerous realm of relativism. The chapters in this book explore how the term theopoetics contributes to cutting-edge work in theology, philosophy, literature, and sociology. Frontmatter Introduction: The Manifold of Theopoetics (Roland Faber and Jeremy Fackenthal, page 1) POETICS Reality, Eternality, and Colors: Rimbaud, Whitehead, Stevens (Michael Halewood, page 15) (Theo)poetic Naming and the Advent of Truths: The Role of Poetics in the Philosophy of Alain Badiou (Hollis Phelps, page 30) Kierkegaardian Theopoiesis: Selfhood, Anxiety, and the Multiplicity of Human Spirits (Sam Laurent, page 47) Theology as a Genre of the Blues (Vincent Colapietro, page 64) POLYPHONY Poiesis, Fides, et Ratio in the Absence of Relativism (Matthew S. LoPresti, page 81) The World as an Ultimate: Children as Windows to the World's Sacredness (C. Robert Mesle, page 97) The Gravity of Love: Theopoetics and Ontological Imagination (Laurel C. Schneider, page 109) SUB-VERSION Theopoetics as Radical Theology (John D. Caputo, page 125) Toward the Heraldic: A Theopoetic Response to Monorthodoxy (L. Callid Keefe-Perry, page 142) The Sublime, the Conflicted Self, and the Attention to the Other: Toward a Theopoetics with Iris Murdoch and Julia Kristeva (Paul S. Fiddes, page 159) THE PLURI-VERSE Theopoetics and the Pluriverse: Notes on a Process (Catherine Keller, page 179) Consider the Lilies and the Peacocks: A Theopoetics of Life between the Folds (Luke B. Higgins, page 195) Becoming Intermezzo: Eco-Theopoetics after the Anthropic Principle (Roland Faber, page 212) AFTER-WORD Silence, Theopoetics, and Theologos: On the Word That Comes After (John Thatamanil, page 239) Notes (page 255) List of Contributors (page 295) Index (page 301) This book explores a “theopoetics” of multiplicity, how it contributes to scholarship on the edge of theology, philosophy, literature, and sociology, how it questions the establishment of the difference between philosophy and theology and resides in the dangerous realm of relativism, but might also heal the desperateness of orthodox persecution.