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Book SynopsisA work that questions - What is the nature of God? What is the nature of being? What is the relationship between God and being? And what is the meaning of forgiveness, faith, piety, or transcendence? - that define the terrain of contemporary philosophy of religion.
Trade Review. . . The Weakness of God is a bold attempt to reconfigure the terms of debate around the topic of divine omnipotence. Caputo has a gift for explaining Continental philosophy's jargon succinctly and accurately, and despite technical and foreign terms, this book will engage upper-level undergraduates. Includes scriptural and general indexes. . . . Highly recommended.
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Table of ContentsContents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Theology of the Event
Part One. The Weakness of God
1. God without Sovereignty
2. St. Paul on the Logos of the Cross
3. The Beautiful Risk of Creation: On Genesis ad literam (Almost)
4. Omnipotence, Unconditionality, and the Weak Force of God
Hermeneutical Interlude: Two Keys to the Kingdom
5. The Poetics of the Impossible
6. Hyper-Realism and the Hermeneutics of the Call
Part Two. The Kingdom of God: Sketches of a Sacred Anarchy
7. Metanoetics: The Seventh Day, or Making All Things New
8. Quotidianism: Everyday, or Keeping Time Holy
9. Back to the Future: Peter Damian on the Remission of Sin and Changing the Past
10. Forgiven Time: The Pharisee and the Tax Collector
11. "Lazarus, Come Out": Rebirth and Resurrection
12. The Event of Hospitality: On Being Inside/Outside the Kingdom of God
Appendix to Part Two: Newly Discovered Fragments on the Kingdom of God from "The Gospel of Miriam"
A Concluding Prayer
Notes
Index
