| Abstract: | Post-modern philosophy of religion displays a wide variety of concerns and ways of developing themes rooted in religious traditions. Here I investigate how two prominent contemporary American thinkers, Merold Westphal and John Caputo, find different ways to thematize transcendence and God. While both have links to the phenomenological tradition, they nevertheless approach this subject, which is central to all philosophy of religion, in modes quite different from each other and in ways that remain indebted to post-modern discourse. Accordingly, they develop understandings of theism that reveal the significance of post-modern conditions which offer premises for how to speak of transcendence and God. My claim is that they both thus show how post-modern modes of thinking have important and viable bearings on how to articulate the Christian tradition on transcendence and God in a contemporary situation. |
