Reimagining the Sacred: Richard Kearney Debates God with James Wood, Catherine Keller, Charles Taylor, Julia Kristeva, Gianni Vattimo, Simon … Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)

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Latest conversations about religion and culture are framed by two reductive definitions of secularity. In one, a couple of 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 individuals who need to rediscover the sacred in a skeptical society? What sort of faith, if any, may also 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 at 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: the way to reconcile God’s goodness with human evil, the way to imagine in both God and natural science, how to speak about God without indulging in fundamentalist rhetoric, and the way to balance God’s sovereignty with God’s love.

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