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Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan

Anthony T. Kronman, Sterling Professor of Law (Yale University Press)

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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