Book
Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan
Anthony T. Kronman, Sterling Professor of Law
(Yale University Press)
According to the author, 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 T. Kronman offers in this 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 belief — the born-again paganism on which modern science, art, and politics all vitally depend. Surveying centuries of Western thought — from Plato to Augustine, Aquinas, and Kant, from Spinoza to Nietzsche, Darwin, and Freud — Kronman strives to recover and reclaim the God that he believes is needed today.
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