The Insistence of God: A Theology of Perhaps

by John D. Caputo

Book Overview

The Insistence of God presents the provocative idea that God does not exist, God insists, while God's existence is a human responsibility, which may or may not happen. For John D. Caputo, God's existence is haunted by "perhaps," which does not signify indecisiveness but an openness to risk, to the unforeseeable. Perhaps constitutes a theology of what is to come and what we cannot see coming. Responding to current critics of continental philosophy,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253010071
• ISBN13: 9780253010070
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.8"