John D. Caputo

The Weakness of God

A Theology of the Event

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Produktbeschreibung

A work that questions - What is the nature of God? What is the nature of being? What is the relationship between God and being? And what is the meaning of forgiveness, faith, piety, or transcendence? - that define the terrain of contemporary philosophy of religion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 153mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9780253218285
• ISBN-10: 0253218284
• Artikelnr.: 21074596

Autorenporträt

John D. Caputo is the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University. He is author of More Radical Hermeneutics (IUP, 2000) and The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida (IUP, 1997).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Theology of the Event
Part One. The Weakness of God
1. God without Sovereignty
2. St. Paul on the Logos of the Cross
3. The Beautiful Risk of Creation: On Genesis ad literam (Almost)
4. Omnipotence, Unconditionality, and the Weak Force of God
Hermeneutical Interlude: Two Keys to the Kingdom
5. The Poetics of the Impossible
6. Hyper-Realism and the Hermeneutics of the Call
Part Two. The Kingdom of God: Sketches of a Sacred Anarchy
7. Metanoetics: The Seventh Day, or Making All Things New
8. Quotidianism: Everyday, or Keeping Time Holy
9. Back to the Future: Peter Damian on the Remission of Sin and Changing
the Past
10. Forgiven Time: The Pharisee and the Tax Collector
11. "Lazarus, Come Out": Rebirth and Resurrection
12. The Event of Hospitality: On Being Inside/Outside the Kingdom of God
Appendix to Part Two: Newly Discovered Fragments on the Kingdom of God from
"The Gospel of Miriam"
A Concluding Prayer
Notes
Index