Watch our January 8, 2022 Second Saturday Conversation. Within radical theology, what is it to pray? Prayer belongs to our restless hearts. It is a response before it is an address. Moreover, it belongs to a prior and deeper structure than dogmas or doctrine. As a result, prayer and the name of God is not “a theoretical object” but as Jack Caputo says it “is a form of life.”
Radical Theologians and Prayer
In this conversation, we talk with Jack about prayer, spirituality and radical theology. We discuss the topic, do radical theologians pray? Here is a link to an article he wrote for a journal in August 2021 which addresses these very issues. Delving deeply into philosophy and religion, Jack discusses the origins of prayer. Most importantly, it is worth a read!
Jack has been our guest in our Second Conversation a few other times and we invite you to watch recordings of his previous visits.
He will also be joining us on April 9, 2022 so please look for that conversation in the future!
Weak Theology
Weak theology is a branch of theology that has been influenced by the deconstructive thought of Jacques Derrida. The idea of weak theology rejects the idea that God is an all knowing and all seeing being directly influencing the world. The God of weak theology does not intervene in nature. As a result, weak theology emphasizes the responsibility of humans to act in this world in the here and now.