Theopoetics and Religious Difference

The Unruliness of the Interreligious: A Dialogue with Richard Kearney, John D. Caputo, and Catherine Keller

by Marius van Hoogstraten

Book cover: Theopoetics and Religious Difference

Extent: 270 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Religious Studies

Series: Religion in Philosophy and Theology

Series volume number: 104

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(September 2020)

ISBN: 9783161598005

9.13 x 6.1 inches

Price: $124.00

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In this study, Marius van Hoogstraten seeks to come to an understanding of the interreligious that embraces the ambiguity, historicity, and dynamic relationality of religious difference – in a word, its unruliness. While many approaches in theology implicitly recognize this unruliness, they typically try to bring it under control, to pacify it, or keep it at a distance. Instead, the author proposes turning to the “theopoetics” – approaches to theology marked by both uncertainty and creativity – of the contemporary philosophers and theologians Richard Kearney, John D. Caputo and Catherine Keller to envision the interreligious as the non-site of an aporetic relatedness neither secondary to religious identity nor indicative of an underlying unity, making it possible for an inter-religious solidarity to emerge from the depths of difference.

  • By (author) Marius van Hoogstraten