Anatheism: returning to God after God
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-the…
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- Full title :Anatheism : returning to God after God / Richard Kearney.
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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 brea
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- Publication Date:©2010.
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- Publisher(s):Columbia University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2010.
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Paperback edition, 2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xxii, 248 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780231519861, 0231519869, 0231147880, 9780231147880
- oclc:ocn826520043
- LC Classification:BL473
- Dewey Decimal:211
Table of Contents
Introduction : God after God -- In the moment : the uninvited guest -- In the wager : the fivefold motion -- In the name : after Auschwitz who can say God? -- In the flesh : sacramental imagination -- In the text : Joyce, Proust, Woolf -- In the world : between secular and sacred -- In the act : between word and flesh -- Conclusion : welcoming strange gods.
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