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Anatheism: Returning to God After God

Contributor(s): Kearney, Richard (Author)

ISBN: 9780231147897

Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Pub Date: May 17, 2011

Dewey: 211

LCCN: 2009017886

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.70" H x 8.80" L x 6.00" W ( 0.85 lbs) 272 pages

Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and C

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God after God--ana-theos--is a moment of creative "not knowing" signifying a break with former sureties and inviting the forging of new meanings from the most ancient of wisdoms. Anatheism refers to an inaugural event lying at the heart of every great religion, a wager between hospitality and hostility to the stranger--the sense of something "more." By analyzing the roots of our own anatheistic moment today, Richard Kearney shows not only how a return to God is possible for those who seek it but also how a more liberating faith can be born.

Review Quotes: 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.--James Wood "Page-Turner blog, The New Yorker"

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