A Critical Review of Radical Orthodoxy and John Caputo’s Weak Theology for a Postmodern Generation
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Christian universities and colleges have the challenging task of educating the postmodern generation in Christian values. In support of that task, this article critically reviews Radical Orthodoxy and John D. Caputo’s weak theol- ogy and applies them to the context of Christian campus ministry. On the one hand, radical Orthodoxy argues for a post-secularity characterized by partic- ipatory ontology and retrieval of the Christian traditionas an alternative to secular modernism and nihilistic postmodernism. On the other hand, weak theology is grounded on radical hermeneutics which accepts deconstructive strat- egies from postmodern philosophy. In this method, weak theology discusses the possibility of religion without ideologies and argues that the weakness of God is paradoxically stronger than any other power. This paradox occurs through the Cross event. Both positions have weak points. Radical Orthodoxy vague- ly distinguishes secularism from modernism and has an excessively romantic view of premodern times. Weak theology does not provide a clear answer to the possibility of having religious experiences without religious rituals or the deity of Jesus. Nevertheless, these two postmodern theologies can be ap- plied to campus ministry in the following ways: through students’ experi- ences of traditional worship, introductory classes of Christianity from a post- modern perspective, and through a presentation of the new religiosity and transcendence of the postmodern age.
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Christian universities and colleges have the challenging task of educating the postmodern generation in Christian values. In support of that task, this article critically reviews Radical Orthodoxy and John D. Caputo’s weak theol- ogy and applies them to the context of Christian campus ministry. On the one hand, radical Orthodoxy argues for a post-secularity characterized by partic- ipatory ontology and retrieval of the Christian traditionas an alternative to secular modernism and nihilistic postmodernism. On the other hand, weak theology is grounded on radical hermeneutics which accepts deconstructive strat- egies from postmodern philosophy. In this method, weak theology discusses the possibility of religion without ideologies and argues that the weakness of God is paradoxically stronger than any other power. This paradox occurs through the Cross event. Both positions have weak points. Radical Orthodoxy vague- ly distinguishes secularism from modernism and has an excessively romantic view of premodern times. Weak theology does not provide a clear answer to the possibility of having religious experiences without religious rituals or the deity of Jesus. Nevertheless, these two postmodern theologies can be ap- plied to campus ministry in the following ways: through students’ experi- ences of traditional worship, introductory classes of Christianity from a post- modern perspective, and through a presentation of the new religiosity and transcendence of the postmodern age.
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