The God Who May Be: A Hermeneutics of Religion

"Kearney is one of the most exciting thinkers in the English-speaking
world of continental philosophy.... and [he] joins hands with its fundamental
project, asking the question 'what'or who'comes after the God of metaphysics?'" --
John D. Caputo

Engaging some of the most 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 différance, and faith in philosophy are
taken up in this penetrating and original work.

Richard Kearney
is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College and University College, Dublin. He is
author of many books on modern philosophy and culture, including Dialogues with
Contemporary Continental Thinkers, The Wake of Imagination, and The Poetics of
Modernity.