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Anatheism: Returning to God After God
Richard Kearney
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Description for Anatheism: Returning to God After God
Paperback. Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, ill. BIC Classification: HPCF7; HRAB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 224 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376. Returning to God After God. Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture. 272 pages, ill. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HPCF7; HRAB1. Dimension: 151 x 224 x 15. Weight: 372.
Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek, sound, and love the things we call divine? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties and presumptions opened a space in which we can encounter religious wonder anew? Situated at the split between theism and atheism, we now have the opportunity to respond in deeper, freer ways to things we cannot fathom or prove. Distinguished philosopher Richard Kearney calls this condition ana-theos, or God after God-a moment of creative "not knowing" that signifies a break with former sureties ... Read more
Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek, sound, and love the things we call divine? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties and presumptions opened a space in which we can encounter religious wonder anew? Situated at the split between theism and atheism, we now have the opportunity to respond in deeper, freer ways to things we cannot fathom or prove. Distinguished philosopher Richard Kearney calls this condition ana-theos, or God after God-a moment of creative "not knowing" that signifies a break with former sureties ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
Condition
New
Weight
379g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231147897
SKU
V9780231147897
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About Richard Kearney
Richard Kearney holds the Charles H. Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College and is visiting professor at University College Dublin. The author of two novels and a volume of poetry, his most recent philosophical works include the trilogy Philosophy at the Limits: Strangers, Gods, and Monsters: Ideas of Otherness, The God Who May Be: A Hermeneutics of Religion, and ... Read more
Reviews for Anatheism: Returning to God After God
A heartfelt, pragmatic, and eminently realistic argument about how one might continue to think about
and even dedicate one's life to
God after the 'death' or 'disappearance' of God over the last hundred years or so... Richard Kearney wants to see what is left of God, in the time after God, and he does so superbly well. The New Yorker provides a ... Read more
and even dedicate one's life to
God after the 'death' or 'disappearance' of God over the last hundred years or so... Richard Kearney wants to see what is left of God, in the time after God, and he does so superbly well. The New Yorker provides a ... Read more