What to Believe?: Twelve Brief Lessons in Radical Theology - Couverture rigide

Caputo, John D.

 
9780231210942: What to Believe?: Twelve Brief Lessons in Radical Theology
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ISBN 10 : 0231210949 ISBN 13 : 9780231210942
Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2023

Synopsis

If you no longer "believe in God," the Supreme Being of classical theology, or you never did in the first place, is there anything you still ought to believe, anything you should cherish unconditionally, no matter what? 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 D. Caputo seeks out what there is to believe, with or without religion.

Writing in a lucid and witty style, Caputo offers a bold account of a "radical theology" that is anything but what the word theology suggests to most people. His point of departure is autobiographical, describing growing up in the world of pre-Vatican II Catholicism, serving as an altar boy, and spending four years in a Catholic religious order after high school. Caputo places Augustine's Confessions, Tillich's Dynamics of Faith, and Jacques Derrida and postmodern theory in conversation in the service of what he calls the "mystical sense of life." He argues that radical theology is not simply an academic exercise but describes a concrete practice immediately relevant to the daily lives of believers and nonbelievers alike. What to Believe? is an engaging introduction to radical theology for all readers curious about what religion can mean today.

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À propos de l'auteur

John D. Caputo is the Thomas J. Watson Professor Emeritus of Religion and Humanities at Syracuse University and the David R. Cook Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Villanova University. His many books include What Would Jesus Deconstruct? The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church (2007), Hoping Against Hope: Confessions of a Postmodern Pilgrim (2015), and The Folly of God: A Theology of the Unconditional (2015).

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Éditeur
Columbia University Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0231210949
ISBN 13 
9780231210942
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
208
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2023
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