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 of religion. These scholars, in turn, receive responses by Caputo, therebystrengthening the development of radical theology in Europe and abroad.

This book gathers the European reception of John. D. 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 of religion. These scholars, in turn, receive responses by Caputo. This volume so aims to strengthen the development of radical theology in Europe and abroad.

Acknowledgments

John D. Caputo’s Radical Theology in Europe: An Introduction

Joeri Schrijvers and Martin Koci

Part I: Radical Theology and Politics

1Radical Theology as Political Theology: Exploring the Fragments of God’s Weak Power

Calvin Ullrich

To Ullrich

John D. Caputo

2 A Radical Fidelity: John D. Caputo and the Future of Religion

Marie Chabbert

To Chabbert

John D. Caputo

3Is it Radical Enough? The Ethical Call of Caputo’s Theopoetics to Stick to the Difficulty of Life in Light of Black Lives Matter

Enrieke Damen

To Damen

John D. Caputo

Part II: Radical Theology and The Tragic Versus Hope, and Love

4The Foolish Call of Love

George Pattison

To Pattison

John D. Caputo

5 From Kenosis to Kenoma: The Enigma of a Place in Derrida and Caputo

Agata Bielik-Robson

To Bielik-Robson

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6A Post-Belief Europe and the Offer of John D. Caputo

Maria Francesca French and Barry Taylor

To French and Taylor

John D. Caputo

Part III: Radical Theology and Christianity

7The Call and the Cross in Caputo and Bultmann

Rick Benjamins

To Benjamins

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8 Caputo and the Unidentifiability of God

Christophe Chalamet

To Chalamet

John D. Caputo

9 God—The Opportunity for Continued Discontent

Jan-Olav Henriksen

To Henriksen

John D. Caputo

Part IV: Radical Theology Within Theology and Philosophy

10Radical Theology’s Place within Theology

Justin Sands

To Sands

John D. Caputo

11 Keeping Weakness Weak to Make It Strong: Caputo’s Theopoetics of “Event”

Erik Meganck

To Meganck

John D. Caputo

12 Hospitality in Action: A Question for Practical Theology?

Pascal Renaud-Grosbras

To Renaud-Grosbras

John D. Caputo

13Care and Decay: A Phenomenology of the Queer Body (With Constant Reference to the HIV-Positive Flesh)

Nikolaas Cassidy-Deketelaere

To Cassidy-Deketelaere

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Index

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