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This chapter is structured as a dialogue between the authors and not only describes theopoetics and radical theology but performs their relationship. It emphasizes conversations between radical theology and theopoetics centered around hermeneutics and liberation.
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John Elson, “Is God Dead?”, Time 87.14 (8 April 1966).
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Jacques Derrida, Of Spirit (Chicago: U Chicago P, 1989), 2.
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Thomas Altizer, “Theology and the Death of God,” in Radical Theology and the Death of God, by T. Altizer and W. Hamilton (New York: Bobs-Merrill, 1966), 9.
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James Luchte gives a good account of this: “The situation is not of the subject, but of Being itself, a situation as a clearing, the place of truth, given by Being. Heidegger writes, ‘The self-giving into the open, along with the open region itself, is Being itself.’ Being, to repeat our indication of the ontological difference, is not a being among beings. It is meant, Heidegger reminds us, in the sense in which Parmenides said, ‘esti gar einai’—‘For there is Being.’ Such a sense was repeated by Aristotle several centuries later when he asked, ‘Why is there something, rather than nothing?’ This is a sense of Being that is neither concerned with what things or beings are (essentia), nor with how things or beings are (existentia), but instead, it is a sense of Being that is concerned with that anything is at all” (James Luchte, Mortal Thought [New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016], 155).
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Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be (New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1952), 182ff.; Systematic Theology, vol. 1 (Chicago: U Chicago P, 1951), 113, 124.
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David Miller, “Theopoetry or Theopoetics?”, Cross Currents 60.1 (2010), 7.
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Amos Wilder, Early Christian Rhetoric (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1964), 5–6.
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Paul van Buren, Theological Explorations (London: SCM, 1968), 32–33.
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In truth, Balthasar was using the word in English significantly prior to Hopper, but his use of it is far closer to the Greek Patristic sense of theopoiesis as divinization. For more on this trajectory see Anne M. Carpenter’s Theo-Poetics (South Bend, IN: U Notre Dame P, 2015).
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Stanley Hopper, “The Literary Imagination and the Doing of Theology,” in The Way of Transfiguration, eds. R. Keiser and T. Stoneburner (Louisville: Westminster, 1992), 207.
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Rubem Alves, Toward a Theology of Liberation, Ph.D. diss., Princeton Theological Seminary (1968); The Poet, The Warrior, The Prophet (Philadelphia: Trinity, 1990).
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Roland Faber, “Process Theology as Theopoetics,” lecture, Claremont School of Theology (7 February 2006); Faber, God as Poet of the World (Louisville, KY: WJK, 2008); Faber and Jeremy Fackenthal, eds., Theopoetic Folds (New York, Fordham UP, 2013); Catherine Keller, “Poetics, Post-Structuralism, and Process,” Process Perspective 29.1 (2006): 1–10; Keller, “The Pluri-verse,” in Faber and Fackenthal, eds (2013): 179–194; and Keller, Cloud of the Impossible (New York: Columbia UP, 2014).
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John Caputo , The Weakness of God (Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 2006); Caputo , The Insistence of God (Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 2013); Caputo and Catherine Keller, “Theopoetic/Theopolitic,” Cross Currents 56.1 (2006): 105–11; Richard Kearney, Anatheism (New York: Columbia UP, 2010), Kearney, “Epiphanies of the Everyday,” in After God, ed. J. Manoussakis (New York: Fordham UP, 2006): 3–20.
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Carpenter (2015); David Mosley, Being Deified (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2016).
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Caputo (2013), 59–86.
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Thomas Altizer, Living the Death of God (Albany: SUNY P, 2006), 177.
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Gabriel Vahanian, Theopoetics of the Word (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 121.
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Ibid.
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Ibid., 144.
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Thomas Altizer, Genesis and Apocalypse (Louisville, KY: Westminster, 1990).
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Kate Common, Blake Huggins, Ashley Theuring, and Callid Keefe-Perry, “Theopoetics via Liberation Theologies, Queer Theory, and Continental Thought,” American Academy of Religion, New England and Maritime Regional Meeting (2015), 5.
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G. Vahanian (2014), 36.
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Noëlle Vahanian , Language, Desire, and Theology (New York: Routledge, 2003), 2–3.
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Thomas Altizer, Review of Tomorrow’s Child by R. Alves, Journal of the American Academy of Religion 42.2 (1974), 376.
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Alves (1990), 122.
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Kate Common and Ashley Theuring, Forging Voice, film (2016); Patrick Reyes, The River Beneath, Ph.D. diss., Claremont School of Theology (2015); Reyes, “Theopoetics as sic et …,”Syndicate (January/February 2016): 110–127; Reyes, “Alisal,” Theopoetics 3.1 (2017).
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Reyes (2015).
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Juan Luis Segundo, Liberation of Theology (New York: Orbis, 1976); Marcella Althaus-Reid, Indecent Theology (London: Routledge, 2000).
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Caputo (2006), 6–7.
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Mark Jordan, Telling Truths in Church (Boston: Beacon, 2003), 8; James Baldwin, James, “The Creative Process,” in Creative America, ed. J. Mason (New York, NY: Ridge, 1962), 19.
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Paul van Buren, The Secular Meaning of the Gospel (New York: Macmillan, 1966).
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L. Callid Keefe-Perry, Way to Water (Eugene, OR: Cascade Press, 2014), 131.
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Huggins, J.B., Callid Keefe-Perry, L. (2018). Theopoetics. In: Rodkey, C., Miller, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Radical Theology. Radical Theologies and Philosophies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96595-6_54
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