Theopoetics as Heretical Hegelianism

Here, by theopoetics Caputo means a constellation of non-discursive discourses, of parables and paradoxes, of metaphors and metonyms, of narratives U and prayers, all assembled in order to evoke the sense of the events that occur in and under the name of "God." In theopoetics, accordingly, the logos in theology is displaced by a poetics. In what follows he argues that Hegel is the watershed figure in the genealogy of theopoetics. He singles out Hegel because he discredits two eviscerating dualisms in the logic of classical theology, first, the dualism of God and the world, and second, that of reason and revelation, and replaces them with a phenomenology of the Spirit in the world. Hegel himself of course stopped short of theopoetics because he was deeply wedded to the logic of his phenomenology, which remained in deep alliance with logic of classical theology itself. Hence, he argues that a genuine theopoetics emerges by displacing Hegel's notion of "absolute knowledge" by way of a poetics of the event and that Hegel is the most important predecessor figure of theopoetics, which he proposes is best viewed as a heretical Hegelianism.