It Spooks: Living in response to an unheard call

by John D. Caputo, Katharine Sarah Moody, Tad DeLay

It Spooks; Living in response to an unheard call is a book of visual, poetic, and written responses to a paper by John D. Caputo. It is a creative collaboration—including a wide spectrum of contributors from diverse backgrounds and nationalities—which lends itself to the ongoing conversation of radical theology, spectral religion, and (as Caputo himself has described), “our haunting from within”. John D. Caputo writes with pointed insight and a smattering of humor as he dethrones the dry bones of religious academia and deconstructs our Western understanding of God; a god he suggests does not exist, but insists. In one volume Catherine Keller, Brian McLaren, Peter Rollins, Michael Gungor and a host of other (known-and-no-name) academics, artists, writers, photographers, and painters offer a broad perspective of responses to Caputo’s contention of a spectral, weak god who has no agent but you (and me) to enact that which is holy. Prepare to try on the “It Spooks” hauntology as you consider the role(s) you play in this world and what it might mean for you to live in response to this unheard call.

Genres: Spirituality

260 pages, Paperback

First published February 12, 2015

About the author

John D. Caputo is an American philosopher who is the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion Emeritus at Syracuse University and the David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Villanova University. Caputo is a major figure associated with Postmodern Christianity, Continental Philosophy of Religion, as well as the founder of the theological movement known as weak theology. Much of Caputo's work focuses on hermeneutics, phenomenology, deconstruction and theology.

Reviews

[Adam · Rating 5 out of 5]

*Disclaimer: I only read Caputo's essay, to which the remaining essays are a response.*

Radical theologian gestures at the specter that spooks us into answering its unheard call.