Theopoetics names the notion that the divine (theos) manifests itself as creative making (poiesis). Anatheism expresses the attendant claim that this making takes the form of a second creation re-creation or creation again (ana) where humanity and divinity collaborate in the coming of the Kingdom.The Art of Anatheism brings together philosophers, theologians, and artists to open up the question of the relationship between artistic creation and the divine.

The book asks the question how can God happen again after the death of God? It answers it by proposing an art of anatheism which attends to the recreation and return of the divine through certain forms of literature, painting, liturgy, music, and performance. Engaging students, scholars, and interested readers across a wide range of disciplines philosophy, theology, aesthetics, literary criticism, poetics the volume includes contributions from both practising artists and professional academics. As such it brings together examples from ancient religious wisdom traditions and cutting-edge contemporary cultural practices to suggest that the sacred is often most potent and persuasive when recreating the everyday world of our secular experience.

Matthew Clementeis a teaching fellow in philosophy at Boston College. He is co-editor, with C.H. Doude van Troostwijk, of Richard Kearneys Anatheistic Wager: Philosophy, Theology, Poetic (2017).

Richard Kearney is Charles Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College. His many publications include Anatheism: Returning to God after God (2010), Debates in Continental Philosophy: Conversations with Contemporary Thinkers (2004), On Paul Ricoeur: The Owl of Minerva (2005) and Navigations: Collected Irish Essays 1976-2006 (2007).

Introduction,Richard Kearney and Matthew Clemente /PART I: ANATHEISM AND THEOPOETICS / 1. God Making: Theopoetics and Anatheism,Richard Kearney / 2. Theopoetics: A Becoming History,Catherine Keller / 3. Theology, Poetry, and Theopoetics,John Caputo / 4. Cracked: The Black Theology of Anatheism,John Panteleimon Manoussakis /PART II: PAINTING ANATHEISM / 5. Anatheism and Judeo-Christian Art,Mark Patrick Hederman/ 6. Paradise Gardens and the Anatheism of Art,Sheila Gallagher / 7. The Everyday Art of Theopoiesis: Good-for-Nothing Slaves,Alexandra Breukink / 8. One Hand Clapping: Anatheism and Contemporary Buddhist Art,Kate Lawson/ 9. The Annunciate and the Self-Deconstruction of Mon-a-theism,Jean-Luc Nancy /PART III: PERFORMING ANATHEISM / 10. Sacred Songsters: Anatheist Themes in Dylan, Beatles, Cohen, and U2,Murray Littlejohn / 11. More Fully to the Risk: Hip-Hop as Anatheistic Resistance,Callid Keefe-Perry / 12. Performing Anatheism in Syriac Liturgical Poetry,Christina M. Gschwandtner / 13. American Anatheism: the Art of Narrative Healing,Maxwell Pingeon / 14. Materiality and the Sacred in Anatheism,Daniel Bradley /PART IV: SCREENING ANATHEISM / 15. The God of the Lost Ones: Anatheism in Three Contemporary Films,Stephanie Rumpza / 16. After God: Screening the Passion as Ana-Liturgy,Mirella Klomp and Danie Veldsman / 17. The Still Born God, Again,Chris Doude van Troostwijk /PART V: WRITING ANATHEISM / 18. Marilynne Robinson and Anatheism,Andrew Cunning / 19. Anatheism and a New Apocalyptic Poetics,Thomas Altizer / 20. Anatheism for One,Fanny Howe / Notes on Contributors / Bibliography