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Posts Tagged: emergent
September 24, 2009
Exploring Emerging Theology: The Connections between Emergence and John D. Caputo’s The Weakness of God
An Emerging Theology
“The SS seemed more preoccupied, more worried, than usual. To hang a child in front of thousands of onlookers was not a small matter. The head of the camp read the verdict. All eyes were on the child. He was pale, almost calm, but he was biting his lips as he stood in the shadow of the gallows … ‘Where is merciful God, where is he?’ someone behind me was asking … Behind me, I heard the same man asking: ‘For God’s sake, where is God?’ And from within me, I heard an answer: ‘Where He is? This is where – hanging from this gallows.’ That night, the soup tasted of corpses.” – Excerpt from “Night,” by Elie Wiesel in which he recounts his time spent as a young boy in Auschwitz.
I don’t have a personal copy of John D. Caputo’s The Weakness of God: A Theology of Event but this wonderfully advanced technological age in which we all are living and playing has afforded me the opportunity to read most of it for free online. Sure, Google Books intentionally discards pages here and there so that paupers like me will be forced to actually go and purchase books, and I will, but in the meantime I am happily perusing large sections of this very, very enlightening work for free. Read more…