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 and invites us to forge
new meanings from the most ancient of wisdoms. Anatheism refers to
an inaugural event that lies at the heart of every great religion,
a wager between hospitality and hostility to the stranger, the
other--the sense of something "more." By analyzing the roots of our
own anatheistic moment, 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.
Kearney begins by locating a turn toward sacred secularity in
contemporary philosophy, focusing on Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Paul
Ricoeur. He then marks "epiphanies" in the modernist masterpieces
of James Joyce, Marcel Proust, and Virginia Woolf. Kearney
concludes with a discussion of the role of theism and atheism in
conflict and peace, confronting the distinction between sacramental
and sacrificial belief or the God who gives life and the God who
takes it away. Accepting that we can never be sure about God, he
argues, is the only way to rediscover a hidden holiness in life and
to reclaim an everyday divinity.
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