Ways of Contemporary Theopoetics: Mystery, Process, Event

Authors

  • Kseniia Trofymchuk Eastern European Institute of Theology, Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29357/2789-1577.2021.19.2.89-113

Keywords:

theopoetics, postmetaphysics, mystery, hermeneutics, deconstruction, process theology, negative theology, religious thinking, metaphor, event, weak theology, ecotheos

Abstract

The article examines the development of post-metaphysical discourses, united by the term “theopoetics”, that can be divided into two separate stages: the beginning of theopoetics out of the death-of-God movement in the 1970s, and its rebirth in the 1990s. The first one arises as a “non-metaphysical” alternative to conceptual systematics of theology in the use of religious metaphorical language. And the last one results in two main streams: as the process theology in the search of “different” metaphysics, as opposed to classical substantive one, in order to open the doors for interreligious diversity based on continuous universal values, and as hermeneutics and deconstruction, more intolerant of any metaphysics, where theopoetics acquires the meaning of narratives with Jesus as the central element, which determines its radical kenotic methodology. These are the ways of theopoetics that are wanted to be explored in this article.

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2021-11-16

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Trofymchuk, Kseniia. 2021. “Ways of Contemporary Theopoetics: Mystery, Process, Event”. Theological Reflections: Eastern European Journal of Theology 19 (2):89-113. https://doi.org/10.29357/2789-1577.2021.19.2.89-113.

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