For the past couple weeks I’ve had this concept in my head that originated from a term I coined: Faitheist (and Faitheism by extension). Apparently this is a thing. Over at the Philosophy Portal there is a course offered on the topic of Christian Atheism which features lectures by Slavoj Žižek, Peter Rollins, and others. […]
Category: John Caputo
“Faitheism” and Exile
In my last post I coined the term “faitheism” which, if I do say so myself, is quite clever. The combining of concepts that at first glance appear contradictory is a pretty Christian thing to do (at least if the union of divinity and humanity in the person of Christ has anything to say about […]
Theodicy and “Faitheism”
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 […]
Cheat Codes, Grace, and Shiny Happy People
I just picked up a copy of John Caputo’s book, In Search of Radical Theology, and the following passage sort of jumped off the page: Our quasi-Augustinian confession, confessing that there is no big supernatural or transcendental something or other coming over the hill to save us, is the saving. It reminded me of something […]
A Theopoetics of Exile: Avoiding the Void
Those who have been following my work will know that I have been highlighting the concept of “Exile” as a kind of catch-all category to describe ideas like divine weakness, folly, and (what Luther called) the theology of the cross. Further, I am placing Exile in contradistinction from “Empire,” which is the source of ideas […]
VATICAN’T (Catholicism Without All the Uplifting Parts): Week 9 — God’s Risky Atheism
As we wrap up our Vatican’t series I’d like to explore a bit further something I alluded to in my last post. 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, […]