 Postmodern Theopoeitcs

The first school of theopoetics suggests that instead of trying to develop a "scientific" theory of God, as systematic theology attempts, theologians should instead try to find God through poetic articulations of their lived ("embodied") experiences.It asks theologians to accept reality as a legitimate source of divine revelation and suggests that both the divine and the real are mysterious — that is, irreducible to literalist dogmas or scientific proofs.Theopoetics makes significant use of "radical" and "ontological" metaphor to create a more fluid and less stringent referent for the divine.