The Insistence of God: A Theology of Perhaps (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion)

by John D. Caputo

We too have a community or meta-community to report back to, from which we are seeking “authentication,” and we submit to a vast and complex system of protocols and censorship, just like everybody else. To begin with, to the extent that a radical theology could ever be formulated, it would typically report back to a specifically Western community. It would normally be situated within the Western monotheisms and have recourse to Western philosophical discourses steeped in deep-set notions of presence, essence, idea, substance, subject, up to and including the very notions of “religion” and “philosophy” and “theology,” the whole constellation of what Heidegger liked to call “metaphysics,” meaning not an academic discipline but the entire historical, cultural, and intellectual framework of Greco-European civilization.