Seek first the Kingdom of God: that is, the first order of business is to transform one's own inner life, not the accumulation of external trappings of speculative knowledge. — John D. Caputo Copy Share Image
“Too often, contemporary continental philosophers take the “other” of philosophy to mean literature, but not religion, which is for them just a little too wholly other, a little beyond their much heralded tolerance of alterity. They retain an antagonism to religious texts inherited straight from the Enlightenment, even though they pride themselves on having made the axioms and dogmas of… — John D. Caputo Copy Share
The book is what we have come to expect from Marion: challenging, subtle and nuanced analyses, dassling formulations, . . a provocative and original philosophical genius. — John D. Caputo Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy is idolatry if it means holding the 'correct opinions about God' - 'fundamentalism' is the most extreme and salient example of such idolatry - but not if it means holding faith in the right way, that is, not holding it at all but being held by God, in love and service. Theology is idolatry if it means what we… — John D. Caputo Copy Share
It is a confession that we do not have such a prodigious head as is required to answer the question what is happening, that… — John D. Caputo Copy Share Image
Deconstruction is not meant to be a soft sighing for the future, but a way of deciding now and being impassioned in a moment. — John D. Caputo Copy Share Image
Seek first the Kingdom of God: that is, the first order of business is to transform one's own inner life, not the accumulation of… — John D. Caputo Copy Share Image
“Marital life cannot be easily represented in art because it is the small, invisible, quotidian growth of the day-to-day, where outwardly nothing happens. Romantic… — John D. Caputo Copy Share Image
“Nutshells close and encapsulate, shelter and protect, reduce and simplify, while everything in deconstruction is turned toward opening, exposure, expansion, and complexification, toward releasing… — John D. Caputo Copy Share Image
“The Right thinks that the breakdown of the family is the source of crime and poverty, and this they very insightfully blame on the… — John D. Caputo Copy Share Image
