Theopoetics

In this episode, I reflect on theopoetics as a way of returning to Christian theology without returning to literalism, dogmatism, or the need to win theological arguments.As I’ve been rereading Christian theology, I’ve found myself drawn again to the strange, wounded, imaginative heart of religious language. I don’t take these ideas literally in the way I once did, but I do still find myself moved by them as metaphors, symbols, wounds, and invitations.I explore Stanley Romaine Hopper, Death of God theology, and John Caputo’s weak theology as different ways of thinking about what happens to God-language after certainty. This episode is not about debating belief or unbelief. It is about asking what theology can still do when it becomes poetic, imaginative, weak, ethical, and open to the future.