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Category: Atheism

Theodicy and “Faitheism”

June 18, 2025June 18, 2025Atheism, Exile, Exile & Empire, God, Idolatry, John Caputo, MaterialismLeave a comment

In his book In Search of Radical Theology, John Caputo offers a unique theodicy to address the fact that the Kingdom of God has not arrived (a theodicy is literally a “defense of God,” usually in response to the so-called problem of evil). There are a couple ways of dealing with this disappointing fact, the […]

A Theopoetics of Exile: The Risk of Divine (May)Being

October 30, 2024October 30, 2024Atheism, Exile, Exile & Empire

As we approach the end of our series on Exile & Empire, I’d like to explore a bit further something I alluded to earlier. Speaking of the effects of the Jesus story upon humankind, I wrote: Or to put all this in (much) less orthodox terms, maybe there is no external divine Agent accomplishing any of this, […]

A Theopoetics of Exile: God’s Own Atheism

September 27, 2024September 27, 2024Atheism, Exile, Exile & Empire, The Death of God

In this series we have seen that Jesus, by his anguished cry from the cross (“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”), utterly and completely subverted the American Gospel which promises that we can avoid the void if we just do X, Y, or Z. Rather than seeking to circumvent the darkness, Jesus plunged himself […]

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