Postmodern/Radical Theology

• Focuses on the here & now, the world in which we live, rather than an outside destination/God.

• Central goal of learning from the insistence, the inner urging of something more meaningful, of religious/spiritual experience.

• Says there are many paths to the ground of being (the core of what God-language represents), and this is shared by everyone.

• Based on a personal, imaginative exploration of meaning/spirituality.

• Invites people to choose freely to deepen their intimacy with the ground of being, the experiential essence of what verbal language/God talk represents.

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What to Believe: Twelve Brief Lessons in Radical Theology
John Caputo

Life is a gift we did not ask for. That is the condition of a pure gift — no Infinite Debt, no Big Benefactor in the sky, no choirs of courtiers singing eternal hosannas to the emperor, no rewards and punishments. Just a gift, without why.

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Hoping Against Hope
John D. Caputo

The conservatives confirm that religion requires believing fantasies. The progressives confirm that living well has little or nothing to do with believing in religion’s supernatural beings and codified doctrines. Indeed, far from being sustained by such beliefs, living well is actually impeded by it and too often results in leading furiously reactionary, intolerant, exclusionary, avaricious, mean-spirited, science-denying and anti-modern lives.

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Hoping Against Hope
John D. Caputo