{"product_id":"9780253109163","title":"The God Who May Be: A Hermeneutics of Religion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Kearney is one of the most exciting thinkers in the English-speaking\u003cbr\u003e world of continental philosophy.... and [he] joins hands with its fundamental\u003cbr\u003e project, asking the question 'what'or who'comes after the God of metaphysics?'\" --\u003cbr\u003e John D. Caputo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEngaging some of the most urgent issues in the\u003cbr\u003e philosophy of religion today, in this lively book Richard Kearney proposes that\u003cbr\u003e instead of thinking of God as 'actual,' God might best be thought of as the\u003cbr\u003e possibility of the impossible. By pulling away from biblical perceptions of God and\u003cbr\u003e breaking with dominant theological traditions, Kearney draws on the work of Ricoeur,\u003cbr\u003e Levinas, Derrida, Heidegger, and others to provide a surprising and original answer\u003cbr\u003e to who or what God might be. For Kearney, the intersecting dimensions of\u003cbr\u003e impossibility propel religious experience and faith in new directions, notably\u003cbr\u003e toward views of God that are unforeseeable, unprogrammable, and uncertain. Important\u003cbr\u003e themes such as the phenomenology of the persona, the meaning of the unity of God,\u003cbr\u003e God and desire, notions of existence and différance, and faith in philosophy are\u003cbr\u003e taken up in this penetrating and original work. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Kearney\u003cbr\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College and University College, Dublin. He is\u003cbr\u003e author of many books on modern philosophy and culture, including Dialogues with\u003cbr\u003e Contemporary Continental Thinkers, The Wake of Imagination, and The Poetics of\u003cbr\u003e Modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084540395760,"sku":"9780253109163","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780253109163_p0.jpg?v=1763680894","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780253109163","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}