The God Who May Be: A Hermeneutics of Religion

Richard Kearney

The God Who May Be: A Hermeneutics of Religion
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Country
United States
Published
3 October 2001
Pages
192
ISBN
9780253214898

The God Who May Be: A Hermeneutics of Religion

Richard Kearney

Engaging some of the most recent and more urgent issues in the philosophy of religion today, in this lively book Richard Kearney proposes that instead of thinking of God as actual, God might best be thought of as the possibility of the impossible. By pulling away from biblical perceptions of God and breaking with dominant theological traditions, Kearney draws on the work of Ricoeur, Levinas, Derrida, Heidegger, and others to provide a surprising and original answer to who or what God might be. For Kearney, the intersecting dimensions of impossibility propel religious experience and faith in new directions, notably toward views of God that are unforeseeable, unprogrammable, and uncertain. Important themes such as the phenomenology of the persona, the meaning of the unity of God, God and desire, notions of existence and differance, and faith in philosophy are taken up in this penetrating and original work. Kearney’s is one of the more distinctive interpretive voices adding to discussions and debates at the forefront of current thinking in the philosophy of religion.

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