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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779838403321

Autore

Caputo John D

Titolo

The Insistence of God [[electronic resource] ] : A Theology of Perhaps

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-253-01010-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Collana

Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion

Disciplina

231

Soggetti

God (Christianity)

Postmodernism --Religious aspects -- Christianity

Postmodernism

God (Christianity) - Christianity - Religious aspects

Religion

Philosophy & Religion

Christianity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Preface: The Gap God Opens; Acknowledgments; Part 1. The Insistence of God; 1. God, Perhaps: The Fear of One Small Word; 2. The Insistence of God; 3. Insistence and Hospitality: Mary and Martha in a Postmodern World; Part 2. Theopoetics: The Insistence of Theology; 4. Theopoetics as the Insistence of a Radical Theology; 5. Two Types of Continental Philosophy of Religion; 6. Is there an Event in Hegel? Malabou, Plasticity, and "Perhaps"; 7. Gigantomachean Ethics: Žižek, Milbank, and the Fear of One Small Word

Part 3. Cosmopoetics: The Insistence of the World8. The Insistence of the World: From Chiasm to Cosmos; 9. As if I were Dead: Radical Theology and the Real; 10. Facts, Fictions, and Faith: What is Really Real after All?; 11. A Nihilism of Grace: Life, Death, and Resurrection; 12. The Grace of the World; Notes; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

The Insistence of God presents the provocative idea that God does not exist, God insists, while God's existence is a human responsibility, which may or may not happen. For John D. Caputo, God's existence is haunted by ""perhaps,"" which does not signify indecisiveness but an



openness to risk, to the unforeseeable. Perhaps constitutes a theology of what is to come and what we cannot see coming. Responding to current critics of continental philosophy, Caputo explores the materiality of perhaps and the promise of the world. He shows how perhaps can become a new theology of the gaps God opens.<