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REIMAGINING THE SACRED
RICHARD KEARNEY DEBATES GOD WITH JAMES WOOD, CATHERINE KELLER, CHARLES TAYLOR, JULIA KRISTEVA, GIANNI VATTIMO, SIMON CRITCHLEY, JEAN-LUC MARION, JOHN CAPUTO, DAVID TRACY, JENS ZIMMERMANN, AND MEROLD WESTPHAL |
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Richard Kearney (Editor), Jens Zimmermann (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0231161034 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780231161039 |
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| Publisher: |
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 December, 2015 |
| Series: |
Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Description: |
How do we talk about God after the "death of God"? Using the work of Richard Kearney as a pivotal reference point, the conversations in this volume locate the sacred within secular life and affirm a positive role for religion in human reflection and action. The book engages with key questions in the contemporary philosophy of religion that will interest all spiritually minded individuals and skeptics: how to reconcile God's goodness with human evil, how to believe in both God and natural science, how to talk about a God after God "ana-theistically," freed from fundamentalist rhetoric, and how to balance God's sovereignty with God's love. |
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Contemporary conversations about religion and culture are framed by two reductive definitions of secularity. In one, multiple faiths and nonfaiths coexist free from a dominant belief in God. In the other, we deny the sacred altogether and exclude religion from rational thought and behavior. But is there a third way for those who wish to rediscover the sacred in a skeptical society? What kind of faith, if any, can be proclaimed after the ravages of the Holocaust and the many religion-based terrors since?Richard Kearney explores these questions with a host of philosophers known for their inclusive, forward-thinking work on the intersection of secularism, politics, and religion. An interreligious dialogue that refuses to paper over religious difference, these conversations locate the sacred within secular society and affirm a positive role for religion in human reflection and action. Drawing on his own philosophical formulations, literary analysis, and personal interreligious experiences, Kearney develops through these engagements a basic gesture of hospitality for approaching the question of God. His work facilitates a fresh encounter with our best-known voices in continental philosophy and their views on issues of importance to all spiritually minded individuals and skeptics: how to reconcile God's goodness with human evil, how to believe in both God and natural science, how to talk about God without indulging in fundamentalist rhetoric, and how to balance God's sovereignty with God's love. |
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US |
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Columbia University Press |
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