"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. CaputoEngaging 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.

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