Before God, Without God: An Intellectual Memoir

A gripping account of a philosopher and theologian who has been equally critiqued for being too religious and not-religious-enough, too theological in his philosophy and too philosophical in his theology, too obsessed with abyssal mystery and too content with the possibility for emotion to well up and shape his world. In three parts, Jack Caputo travels geographically and temporally across US Catholicism's immigrant experience--before, during, and since Vatican II--and explores how God "takes place on the plane of the perhaps, there and not there, like a specter or a ghost which neither simply is nor simply is not. With God, nothing is simple. Without God, nothing is simple."