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This Quoircast podcast episode is brought to you by Religious Refugees by Mark Karris. Published by Quoir and available now. In this episode we chat with John D Caputo John D. Caputo is a hybrid philosophertheologian intent on producing impure thoughts, thoughts which circulate between philosophy and theology, short-circuits which deny fixed and rigorous boundaries between philosophy and theology. Caputo treats sacred texts as a poetics of the human condition, or as a theo-poetics, a poetics of the event harbored in the name of God. His past books have attempted to persuade us that hermeneutics goes all the way down ( Radical Hermeneutics ), that Derrida is a thinker to be reckoned with by theology ( The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida ), and that theology is best served by getting over its love affair with power and authority and embracing what Caputo calls, following St. Paul, The Weakness of God. He has also addressed wider-than-academic audiences in On Religion and What Would
Deconstructionism does not offer a path to reconstruction or new understanding, leading to people looking at their religion – torn to pieces through hyper-critical analysis – and left with nothing to replace it. Often, they assume that nothingness is the .