John D. Caputo is the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion Emeritus, Syracuse University, and the David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Villanova University. He is a prolific author and influential thinker in postmodern Christianity, particularly in its engagements with phenomenology, deconstruction, and hermeneutics. He specializes in continental philosophy of religion, particularly the "religion without religion" of Jacques Derrida, critiques of onto-theology, questions of postmodernism and "post-secularism," and "death of God" theologies.