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Hoping Against Hope: Confessions of a Postmodern Pilgrim

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John D. Caputo has a long career as probably the most preeminent postmodern philosophers in The us. The creator 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 take part in the “praxis of the kingdom of God,” which Caputo says we will have to pursue “without why.”

Caputo’s conversation partners on 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 non secular order. Caputo traces his own journey from faith through skepticism to hope, after the “death of God.” Finally, Caputo doesn’t wish to get rid of religion; he wants to redeem religion and to reinvent religion for a postmodern time.


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