Making Good on the "Good" of Life: Emerging Logics and Poetics of the Kingdom

Making Good on the “Good” of Life: Emerging Logics and Poetics of the Kingdom Katharine Sarah Moody [email_address]

James K.A. Smith
Reformed Radical Orthodoxy, or Catholic Postmodernism
2000, The Fall of Interpretation .
2002, Speech and Theology .
2004, Introducing Radical Orthodoxy .
2006, Whose Afraid of Postmodernism?
2009, “The Logic of Interpretation.”
John D. Caputo
Deconstructive Theology, or Weak Theology
1997, The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida .
2001, “What Do I Love When I Love My God?”
2006, The Weakness of God .
[2001]2007, On Religion .
2007, What Would Jesus Deconstruct?
Smith: The Logics of Determination and Incarnation
Caputo: Dis/Associating with Christianity
Fictional Theology

The Logics of Determination and Incarnation
The Logic of Determination
Finite human life is fallen, regrettable.
Our (religious) interpretations of life are violent.
The “good life” will never come.
The Logic of Incarnation
Finite human life is good... but fallen.
Our (religious) interpretations of life are good but fallen.
The “good life” will , however, come.

Dis/Associating with Christianity
Messianic dissociation and Historical association
Creation narratives
From being to beyond being, to the good.
God’s “good.”
Life and our (religious) interpretations are affirmed.
Logic of the call > dis/association.
Kingdom parables
Being a new creation, a way of being otherwise.
Making good on God’s “good.”
“ Kingdom (to-)come / (Kingdom) to-come.”
Substitutable names name a call, not an origin or a telos .

Fictional Theology
Phenomenology of religion, and theology.
Marion reduces phenomenology to theology.
Caputo reduces theology to phenomenology.
Phenomenology of religion:
Fictionality.
The status of theology
Smith: from pluralism to out-narration.
Nihilistic meta-metanarrative, interpretation of interp.
Caputo: relative determinacy.

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Making Good on the "Good" of Life: Emerging Logics and Poetics of the Kingdom

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