The Weakness of God Quotes

“the truth of the event does not belong to the order of identificatory knowledge, as if our life’s charge were to track down and learn the secret name of some fugitive spirit.”
― John D. Caputo, The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event

“The desire for God—that is the root of the trouble I have bought for myself. I have taken God, the name of God, what is happening in the name of God, as my subject matter. With or without religion,3 with or without what ordinarily passes for theology, the name of God is too important to leave in the hands of the special interest groups. That is why I freely own up here to a certain theological gesture, to a theological desire and a “desiring theology,” as Charles Winquist would have put it,4 which is undeniably a desire for God, for something astir in the name of God, a desire for something I know not what, for which I pray night and day. I am praying for an event.”
― John D. Caputo, The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event

“A name is a promissory note that it cannot itself keep.”
― John D. Caputo, The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event

“I am wounded by theology, unhinged and uprooted by the blow it has delivered to my heart. Theology is my weakness, the way one has a weakness for sex or money, what I secretly desire, or maybe not so secretly, even as it desires everything of me. Still, with all due deference, like Johannes Climacus speaking of being a Christian, I would say that on my best days I am working at becoming theological.”
― John D. Caputo, The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event

“the world bars strangers or makes them present their papers—but the kingdom offers them hospitality and invites them to the wedding feast.”
― John D. Caputo, The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event