113 The purpose of my chapter is to analyze John D. Caputo’s concept of the “weakness of God” as inspired by Jacques Derrida’s attempt to venture beyond the paradigm of power and find ‘the unconditional without sover- eignty,” which, in the Derridean corpus, is usually associated with the name of Khôra or, as he calls it in Foi et savoir, the “infinite wound.” 1 The meta- phor of the wound could indeed suggest that Khôra is a weak and humbled form of the Godhead—yet, the danger incipient to Caputo’s “weakness of God” is that it offers merely an inversion of the paradigm of sovereignty and, precisely because of that, still remains within this very paradigm. In his reception of Derrida—a great critical work which pioneered serious theologi- cal discussion on the latter’s concept of messianicity—Caputo is very atten- tive to the intricacies of the deconstructive strategy, but it seems that his own rhetoric, despite all his reservations still informed by the distinctly Christian notion of kenosis, performatively favors the logic of inversion: “in a strong theology, God is the overarching governor of the universe,” but, in a weak theology, “tohu-va-vohu and tehom have our sympathies from the start. They are the “nothings and nobodies” of this story.” 2 In what follows, I will try to prove that the simple reversal, even if partly fueled by the Derridean deconstructive critique of divine potestas, doesn’t yet do the trick. In order to approach the non-sovereign origin of letting-be (Seinlassen), one cannot rely on the idea of the depletion of power but must search for a completely new set of categories, which would evade the context of potestas altogether. The “weakness of God” must thus come with a twist: with a more decisive shift of perspectives, which will allow to escape the dis- course of power, vitality, indemnity, health, and making-things-whole-again Chapter 5 From Kenosis to Kenoma The Enigma of a Place in Derrida and Caputo Agata Bielik-Robson RL_05_EUTH_C005_docbook_new_indd.indd 113 RL_05_EUTH_C005_docbook_new_indd.indd 113 8/29/2022 9:17:08 PM 8/29/2022 9:17:08 PM