Theopoetry Or Theopoetics? (Report‪)‬

Introduction: Theopoetics, Theopoetry, and the Death of God In what may be the most compelling opening sentence of contemporary fiction, Donald Barthelme, in his short-story "On Angels," wrote: "The death of God left the angels in a strange position." (1) To be sure! And one might have thought that the so-called "death of God" would have also created something of an awkwardness for contemporary theology and theologians. But this seems not to have been the case, if one can judge by the trajectory of the movement that has been referred to as theopoetics. At least it seems not to have been the case for all theopoeticians. A quick glance at a website dedicated to theopoetics (http://theopoetics.net) makes the point that for some thinkers identifying themselves with a theopoetics perspective the "death of God" is not at issue while for others it is very much at issue.