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: Materialism
“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 […]