At our December 13 Second Saturday Conversation we had a guest, John D. Caputo. His topic: ridding ourselves of supernatural theism or the supernatural attitude. We post all our sessions on our website and also send them to you.
Jack explains how the supernatural attitude is a mystification of something substantive. A misguided or mistaken direction of our imagination, and its depths. As we think about our human situation Jack urges us to check “rationalism, reduction and our supernatural guns” at the door, and turn to theopoetic space, theopoetic imagination. Which resides in the depths of our being and is evoked from us in response to making known what is unknown. (Theopoetics gives passage to the limits of our experience.) We might think of theopoetics as a kind of first language. Giving ways to intuit, address and express our experience of that in which we live and move and have our being. To embody our experience. Prior to propositions.
But listen to Jack and how he unfolds all this. Let me suggest that in addition to checking rationalism, reductionism and supernatural theism at the door, you also check your concerns that theopoetics and phenomenology and a radical theology are beyond your grasp. Give yourself an opportunity to experience a master class in these topics. Let it sink in. Jack’s thinking can open us. Loosen us. With language that moves. And moves us. To a mystical sense of life.
Thank you Jack for being with us. And bidding us to taste and see.
See you January 10th for our next Second Saturday Conversation.
