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Book SynopsisJohn 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 his unique voice as he writes about moral life and our strivings for joy against contemporary society and politics.
Trade ReviewRecommended.
* Choice *
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 Reader, William Temple Foundation, Rochdale, and University of Worcester * Modern Believing *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
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
