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A study on John D. Caputo’s postmodern hermeneutics and ‘weak theology’ as an interpretative practice

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2019, (44), pp.339-366
  • DOI : 10.21050/CSE.2019.44.12
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology
  • Received : June 24, 2019
  • Accepted : August 12, 2019
  • Published : August 31, 2019

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ABSTRACT

This paper investigates John Caputo’s postmodern hermeneutics and his ‘weak theology.’ Postmodern hermeneutics defends the idea that there are no pure facts. Behind every interpretation lies another interpretation. Interpretation goes all the way down. Postmodern hermeneutics asserts the endless questionability(interpretability) of our lives. In postmodern hermeneutics, every act of understanding is already an interpretation, not only in the humanities but also in the natural sciences, not only in the academic disciplines but in everything we do in daily life. Postmodern hermeneutics is a radical hermeneutics. It means that we have to take the point of view of the outsiders, the ones whose views have been neglected or excluded. In Caputo’s weak theology, The god is not taken Devine Providence but as event. The god is taken as the promise of the future, as the very possibility of inventiveness. The name of God is a nickname for hope. The name of God is an envoy, an icon of call to interpret the endlessly reinterpretable.

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