An edition of Confessions of a born-again pagan (2016)

Confessions of a born-again pagan

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Confessions of a born-again pagan
Anthony T. Kronman
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An edition of Confessions of a born-again pagan (2016)

Confessions of a born-again pagan

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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 beliefthe born-again paganism on which modern science, art, and politics all vitally depend. Brilliantly surveying centuries of Western thoughtfrom Plato to Augustine, Aquinas, and Kant, from Spinoza to Nietzsche, Darwin, and FreudKronman recovers and reclaims the God we need today.

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Pages
1161

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2020, Yale University Press
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Table of Contents

Part One: Gratitude. Prologue
Introduction
The good of gratitude
A world of rights
"Endless gratitude so burdensome". Part Two: Pride. Greatness of soul
Givers and takers
The eternal and divine
The best life of all
Friendship
The first cosmopolitan
Preparatio evangelica. Part Three: Salvation. Creation
Will
Grace
"Not a sparrow falls"
The contingency of the world
The Pagan temptation
God unchained
Theology of the cross
The hatred of man
The absolute spontaneity of freedom
Our better selves
God becomes a postulate
Reaction
"Fantastic and satanic"
The oblivion of being
The disenchantment of the world. Part four: Joy. The worm in the blood
The God of sufficient reason
"Endless forms most beautiful"
The navel of the dream
"Man is a god to man"
The world as an aesthetic phenomenon
The spider in the moonlight
"The gift of transmigration"
Genius and sublimity
Theological, not political
Democratic vistas
Epilogue.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published with assistance from the Mary Cady Tew Memorial Fund.

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Library of Congress
B805 .K76 2016, B805

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Pagination
xii, 1161 pages
Number of pages
1161

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27220732M
ISBN 10
0300208537
ISBN 13
9780300208535
LCCN
2015955523
OCLC/WorldCat
945564400, 960688740

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