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Do Radical Theologians Pray?: A Spirituality of the Event
| Content Provider | MDPI |
|---|---|
| Author | Caputo, John D. |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
| Description | Radical theology is not only an academic inquiry but also a radical spirituality. This point is confirmed in the phenomenology of radical prayer found in Derrida’s “Circumfession”. Derrida’s prayer takes place in a theopoetic space opened by a theopoetic epoche, which suspends both the supernatural signified (supernaturalism, praying to a Supreme Being) and the transcendental signified (rationalism, reducing prayer to a subjective fantasy). Radical prayer is compared to Augustine’s prayer in the Confessions, taken here as a paradigm of classical prayer. The difference is not that Augustine is really praying and Derrida’s prayer is a literary conceit, but that Augustine’s prayer takes place within a determined set of “beliefs”, of material symbols in which to incarnate his prayer, of which Derrida is deprived, from which he is circum-cut. But this very deprivation or de-materialization renders Derrida’s prayer an even more radical one, belonging to a more spectral “faith”, to the spirituality of a radical theology, to a theology of the event, by which traditional spirituality is both nourished and inwardly disturbed. |
| Starting Page | 679 |
| e-ISSN | 20771444 |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel12090679 |
| Journal | Religions |
| Issue Number | 9 |
| Volume Number | 12 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2021-08-26 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Religions Religion and Religious Studies Prayer Event Radical Theology Radical Spirituality Spectrality Augustine Derrida Confession Circumfession Theopoetic Epoche |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
