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Cross and Cosmos
A Theology of Difficult Glory
John D. Caputo (Author)
9780253043122
Paperback / softback, published 23 July 2019
306 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.454 kg
Recommended. Having read many of Caputo's books over the last twenty years, I can safely say that Cross and Cosmos is another rich and rewarding text.
John D. Caputo stretches his project as a radical theologian to new limits in this groundbreaking book. Mapping out his summative theological position, he identifies with Martin Luther to take on notions of the hidden god, the theology of the cross, confessional theology, and natural theology. Caputo also confronts the dark side of the cross with its correlation to lynching and racial and sexual discrimination. Caputo is clear that he is not writing as any kind of orthodox Lutheran but is instead engaging with a radical view of theology, cosmology, and poetics of the cross. Readers will recognize Caputo's signature themes—hermeneutics, deconstruction, weakness, and the call—as well as his unique voice as he writes about moral life and our strivings for joy against contemporary society and politics.
Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: A Completely Different Story, A Theologian Worthy of the Name Part One: The Cross 1. The Weakness of God: A Radical Theology of the Cross 2. Wounded Glory, Victory in Defeat 3. From Luther to Derrida: A Note on an Unlikely Story 4. The Meaning of Suffering and Political Theology 5. The Cross and the Lynching Tree: The Politics of the Cross 6. From Theology to Theopoetics: An Excursus on Method in Theology 7. Phaenomenologia Crucis: From Transcendence to Transascendence 8. The Existance of God: Unconditional without Sovereignty 9. Deus Absconditus: A God who Deconstructs Himself in His Ipseity 10. The Protestant Principle Interlude I: The Cloud of Anonymity Part Two: The Cosmos 11. The Cosmic Cross: The Problem and the Mystery 12. Planetary Entanglement: Cusa, Keller and the Possibility of the Impossible 13. Cosmic Disentanglement: The Cross God Has to Bear 14. Saying What the Thing Is: On Onto-Hermeneutical Events Interlude II: A Visit to the Planet of the Philosopher 15. Eros and Thanatos: When Love is Worthy of the Name 16. Difficult Glory: The Axial Affirmation A Concluding Doxology Index