Post-metaphysical Theological Adventure in John Caputo, Edith Wyschogrod, and Jacques Derrida

a Christian scholar, explores alternative theological ways of addressing the problem of truth claims in SR encounters.One of his central suggestions is that SR should be understood not as "inter-hope dialogue" as per Caputo, but rather as "inter-hope practice."This, he explains, is due to what he understands to be pragmatist elements of SR that are not sufficiently encapsulated by the term "dialogue." 2 In light of this suggestion, Goodson develops a theological interpretation of Caputo's claim, which he bases primarily on Caputo's memoir, Hoping Against Hope. 3 In this essay, I draw on further aspects of Caputo's theology and show how they can enrich SR as a theology against Gibbs's definitions of interfaith dialogue.The aspects I will deal with are Caputo's interpretation of Derrida's Jewishness, his engagement in Jewish-Christian dialogue with Edith Wyschogrod, and his treatment of the idea of theological community.In these three ways Caputo's work can be interpreted as contributing to a new theological reading of SR.4 Gibbs, 182.