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After God: Richard Kearney and the Religious Turn in Continental Philosophy

John Panteleimon Manoussakis

Print publication date: 2006

Print ISBN-13: 9780823225316

Published to Fordham Scholarship Online: March 2011

DOI: 10.5422/fso/9780823225316.001.0001

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Kearney's Endless Morning

Kearney's Endless Morning

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(p.355) Kearney's Endless Morning
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After God
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Catherine Keller

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Fordham University Press
DOI:10.5422/fso/9780823225316.003.0024

This chapter discusses the registers in which Richard Kearney's philosophical theology appears at the forefront of theology. The possible God suggests a third space, a certain kind of posse of theology itself. The discussion responds to his work mainly by way of his Villanova lecture, “Enabling God”. It asks, soliciting the metaphor that ends the lecture — how endless is Kearney's “morning that never ends”? In terms of genre of possible speech about God, Kearney explores what may be called a theopoetics. For this work he does not seek to define the proper style for God talk so much as perform it by example, as in the intensive citation of poetry of his literary circle. It holds that a theopoetics in genre disables divine omnipotence in dogma. In so doing, it enables Kearney's “enabling God,” as a God who enables the creatures in their own creativity.

Keywords:   Richard Kearney, theology, possible God, Enabling God, theopoetics, omnipotence

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