RT Article
T1 Do Radical Theologians Pray?: A Spirituality of the Event
JF Religions
VO 12
IS 9
A1 Caputo, John D. 1940-
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1772594229
AB Radical theology is not only an academic inquiry but also a radical spirituality. This point is confirmed in the phenomenology of radical prayer found in Derrida’s “Circumfession”. Derrida’s prayer takes place in a theopoetic space opened by a theopoetic epoche, which suspends both the supernatural signified (supernaturalism, praying to a Supreme Being) and the transcendental signified (rationalism, reducing prayer to a subjective fantasy). Radical prayer is compared to Augustine’s prayer in the Confessions, taken here as a paradigm of classical prayer. The difference is not that Augustine is really praying and Derrida’s prayer is a literary conceit, but that Augustine’s prayer takes place within a determined set of “beliefs”, of material symbols in which to incarnate his prayer, of which Derrida is deprived, from which he is circum-cut. But this very deprivation or de-materialization renders Derrida’s prayer an even more radical one, belonging to a more spectral “faith”, to the spirituality of a radical theology, to a theology of the event, by which traditional spirituality is both nourished and inwardly disturbed.
K1 Augustine
K1 Derrida
K1 circumfession
K1 Confession
K1 event radical theology
K1 Prayer
K1 radical spirituality
K1 spectrality
K1 theopoetic epoche
DO 10.3390/rel12090679