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John D Caputo
Volume 5: Coming out as a Theologian collects the papers published by Caputo during his first years in the Syracuse University Religion Department when, as Catherine Keller said, he "came…
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John D. Caputo
Renowned thinker John D. Caputo has spent his career recasting theology and philosophy for a new world. In Facts and Interpretation in the Age of Information, he explores the cross-disciplinary…
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Distinguished philosophers, theologians, and cultural critics provide the first critical consideration of the work of philosopher John D. Caputo. Responses from Caputo are included.
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George Pattison
A Philosophy of Prayer explores prayer within the perspective of post-Kantian philosophy. Against a background of traditional sources, including Augustine, The Cloud of Unknowing, and the seventeenth century French School…
Calvin D. Ullrich
In this study, Calvin D. Ullrich argues for the political significance of the philosopher-theologian John D. Caputo’s radical theology. Against the backdrop of present debates, the author traces the notions…
Written in response to John Caputo’s The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida , this work gathers together the work of contemporary theologians and philosophers to examine the frictive relationship…
Christopher Ben Simpson
William Desmond’s original and creative work in metaphysics is attracting more and more attention from philosophers of religion. Putting Desmond in conversation with John D. Caputo, an important philosopher of…
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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…
This volume poses the question of the relationship between the two main influences on the thought of John D. Caputo, one of the most well-known philosophers of religion working in…
Inspired by Paul Tillich’s suggestion that atheism is not the end of theology but is instead the beginning, and working this together with Derrida’s idea of the undeconstructible, Caputo explores…
This book is a model of philosophical and Heideggerian scholarship. Avoiding the extremes of abject worship and facile refutation, it moves into the heart of the later Heideggers work. Not…
A chronological consideration of Heidegger’s texts that assesses his achievement as a thinker, while pointing to the sources of his political and ethical failure. This work addresses the religious significance…
The purpose of the present study is to undertake a confrontation of the thought of Martin Heidegger and of Thomas Aquinas on the question of Being and the problem of…
Aims to forge a collaboration between hermeneutics and deconstruction.
Defends the notion of obligation without ethics, of responsibility without the support of ethical foundations. Retelling the story of Abraham and Isaac, this work strikes the pose of a postmodern-day…
Claims that we are not born into this world hard-wired to know Being, Truth, or the Good, and we are not vessels of a Divine, or other omnipotent supernatural force…
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…
What is ‘truth’ in today’s freewheeling, pluralistic world, without certainties or fixed ideas? Does it lie in the Reason of Descartes and Kant? Is it Derrida’s idea of an event…
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
Intent upon letting the reader experience the pleasure and intellectual stimulation in reading classic authors, the How to Read series will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to…
John D. Caputo stretches his project as a radical theologian to new limits in this groundbreaking book. Readers will recognize Caputo’s signature themes-hermeneutics, deconstruction, weakness, and the call-as well as…
In Specters of God, John D. Caputo returns to the original impulse of his work, the mystical element in things, here under the name of an anxious apophatics, as distinct…
This sparkling collection of essays invites readers to join a seasoned scholar on his journey to catch radical theology in action, both in the church and our culture at large.
Presents an account of the religious dimension of Jacques Derrida’s thought.
In this lively and accessible book, addressed to believers, "recovering" believers, disbelievers, nonbelievers, and "nones" alike-to anyone in search of what they really do believe-the acclaimed philosopher and theologian John…
Offers texts from Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida, and Irigaray. This book contains excerpts from the famous debate between Jean-Luc Marion and Dominique Janicaud, and ten selections, some of which include…
* Combines readings from classic authors such as Heidegger, Derrida, and Irigaray with original selections from contemporary scholars. * Devotes attention to feminist theology. * Features excerpts from the famous…
Presents an essay that examines the great and classical philosophical questions as they intersect with theology.
Stefan Stofanik
Stofanik provides a unique, personal reading of weak theology and tries to inhabit the gap between it and its founder, John D. Caputo.
Explores the very roots of religious thinking. Drawing on contemporary images of religion, such as Robert Duvall’s film The Apostle , this book provides some imaginative insights into religious fundamentalism.
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Marius van Hoogstraten
In this study, Marius van Hoogstraten seeks to come to an understanding of the interreligious that embraces the ambiguity, historicity, and dynamic relationality of religious difference - in a word…
This volume is an collaborative effort to elucidate Foucault’s contributions as a philosopher and to apply his ideas to a critique of various institutions in society.
Jacques Derrida
A wonderfully helpful and stimulating book… Highly recommended.-ChoiceOne of the most comprehensive and valuable interpretations of deconstruction to date. Highly recommended.-Library Journal
