A Radical God by John D. Caputo - 9780231223638

A Radical GodTheopoetics, Phenomenology, and the Future of Religion\nAuthor(s): John D. Caputo\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Columbia University Press, United States\nImprint: Columbia University Press\nISBN-13: 9780231223638, 978-0231223638\nSynopsis\nReligion is making itself unbelievablescandal-ridden, antiscientific, authoritarian, and reactionary. Can religion be saved? Is it even worth saving? Can religion be saved not just from its critics but from itself?\n\nJohn D. Caputo proposes a radical alternativewhat he calls religions last standby turning to theopoetics. In the traditional account, theopoetics calls for approaching God poetically because God transcends human language. Caputo contests this view, arguing that in the radical account, God does not precede but is generated by the poetic imagination. Theopoetics is not adorning an already constituted God; it is constituting the very idea of God. A radical God, untethered from theological orthodoxy and confessional rivalries.