Confessions of a born-again pagan /
We live in an age of disenchantment. The number of self-professed “atheists” continues to grow. Yet many still feel an intense spiritual longing for a connection to what Aristotle called the “eternal and divine.” For those who do, but demand a God that is compatible with their modern ideals, a new t...
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven, Connecticut :
Yale University Press,
[2016]
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| Summary: | We live in an age of disenchantment. The number of self-professed “atheists” continues to grow. Yet many still feel an intense spiritual longing for a connection to what Aristotle called the “eternal and divine.” For those who do, but demand a God that is compatible with their modern ideals, a new theology is required. This is what Anthony Kronman offers here, in a book that leads its readers away from the inscrutable Creator of the Abrahamic religions toward a God whose inexhaustible and everlasting presence is that of the world itself. Kronman defends an ancient conception of God, deepened and transformed by Christian belief, the born-again paganism on which modern science, art and politics all vitally depend. Brilliantly surveying centuries of Western thought, from Plato to Augustine, Aquinas and Kant, from Spinoza to Nietzsche, Darwin and Freud, Kronman recovers and reclaims the God we need today. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 1161 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300208535 0300208537 |