- In this newest book by popular theologian and philosopher Jack Caputo, Caputo explains and explores his radical theology of the cross, including a confrontation with its dark side, including its connection with lynching and racial and sexual discrimination.
- Jack Caputo is a popular theologian. He is a luminary among academics and has a popular following.
- The main audiences for this book will be students and scholars in philosophy and religion, but there will be general readers in religion who are already familiar with Caputo who will pick it up.
John D. Caputo stretches his project as a radical theologian to new limits in this groundbreaking book. Mapping out his summative theological position, he identifies with Martin Luther to take on notions of the hidden god, the theology of the cross, confessional theology, and natural theology. Caputo also confronts the dark side of the cross with its correlation to lynching and racial and sexual discrimination. Caputo is clear that he is not writing as any kind of orthodox Lutheran but is instead engaging with a radical view of theology, cosmology, and poetics of the cross. Readers will recognize Caputo's signature themes-hermeneutics, deconstruction, weakness, and the call-as well as his unique voice as he writes about moral life and our strivings for joy against contemporary society and politics.
