Worth a Look: Hoping Against Hope – Confessions of a Postmodern Pilgrim (John D. Caputo)

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John D. Caputo has a long career as one of the preeminent postmodern philosophers in America. The author of such books as Radical Hermeneutics, The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida, and The Weakness of God, Caputo now reflects on his spiritual journey from a Catholic altar boy in 1950s Philadelphia to a philosopher after the death of God. Part spiritual autobiography, part homily on what he calls the “nihilism of grace,” Hoping Against Hope calls believers and nonbelievers alike to participate in the “praxis of the kingdom of God,” which Caputo says we must pursue “without why.”

Caputo's conversation partners in this volume include Lyotard, Derrida, and Hegel, but also earlier versions of himself: Jackie, a young altar boy, and Brother Paul, a novice in a religious order. Caputo traces his own journey from faith through skepticism to hope, after the “death of God.” In the end, Caputo doesn't want to do away with religion; he wants to redeem religion and to reinvent religion for a postmodern time.

Robert David STEELE Vivas
Robert David STEELE Vivas

ROBERT STEELE: A “must read.” This is one of our greatest philosopher-theologists in modern time, a man on a par with Will Durant and those those examines. He is confirmed as a speaker at OSE-21 in NYC where his book, Truth: Philosophy in Transit, will be in the Goodie Bag.

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