Ebook: Anatheism : returning to God after God
Author: Kearney Richard
- Tags: God. Death of God. RELIGION -- Agnosticism.
- Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion Politics and Culture
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Columbia Press Univ
- City: New York
- Language: English
- epub
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 fathomRead more...
Abstract: 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