Cross and Cosmos

John D. Caputo is Thomas J. Watson Professor Emeritus of Religion at Syracuse University and David R. Cook Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Villanova University. He is author of many books, including The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event, The Insistence of God: A Theology of Perhaps, Hoping Against Hope: Confessions of a Postmodern Pilgrim, and Truth: Philosophy in Transit.

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: A Completely Different Story, A Theologian Worthy of the NamePart One: The Cross1. The Weakness of God: A Radical Theology of the Cross 2. Wounded Glory, Victory in Defeat3. From Luther to Derrida: A Note on an Unlikely Story4. The Meaning of Suffering and Political Theology5. The Cross and the Lynching Tree: The Politics of the Cross6. From Theology to Theopoetics: An Excursus on Method in Theology7. Phaenomenologia Crucis: From Transcendence to Transascendence8. The Existance of God: Unconditional without Sovereignty9. Deus Absconditus: A God who Deconstructs Himself in His Ipseity10. The Protestant PrincipleInterlude I: The Cloud of AnonymityPart Two: The Cosmos11. The Cosmic Cross: The Problem and the Mystery12. Planetary Entanglement: Cusa, Keller and the Possibility of the Impossible13. Cosmic Disentanglement: The Cross God Has to Bear14. Saying What the Thing Is: On Onto-Hermeneutical EventsInterlude II: A Visit to the Planet of the Philosopher15. Eros and Thanatos: When Love is Worthy of the Name16. Difficult Glory: The Axial AffirmationA Concluding Doxology Index

Recommended.(Choice) Having read many of Caputo's books over the last twenty years, I can safely say that Cross and Cosmos is another rich and rewarding text.- John Reader, William Temple Foundation, Rochdale, and University of Worcester (Modern Believing)