John Caputo on the End of Religion

Jack Caputo, philosopher and keynote speaker, discusses the end of religion at the conference. Panelists Westphal, Robbins, and Simmons engage in a discussion. Topics include the impact of God's concept on religion, community, and theology, the deconstruction of religion and post-modernism, the play of differences and deconstructability, plasticity, form, and difference, the unconditional and its relation to acts and possibilities, exploring levels of religious belief and reinvention of ideas, the logic of the unconditional and reinvention of events, exploring dogma, conditionality, and the function of religion, understanding the difference and the need for discernment, postmodern saints and decision-making, and the God of philosophy vs. the God of the Scriptures.