Confessions of a born-again pagan /
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| Author / Creator: | Kronman, Anthony T., author. |
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| Imprint: | New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016] ©2016 |
| Description: | xii, 1161 pages ; 25 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10889192 |
| Summary: | In this passionate and searching book, Anthony Kronman offers a third way--beyond atheism and religion--to the God of the modern world <br> "An astonishing, . . . epically ambitious book. . . . An intellectual adventure story based on the notion that ideas drive history, and that to dedicate yourself to them is to live a bigger, more intense life."--David Brooks, New York Times <br> 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: | 0300208537 9780300208535 |
