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Philosopher Blaise Pascal famously insisted that it was better to wager belief in God than to risk eternal damnation. More recently, Richard Kearney has offered a wager of his own-the anatheistic wager, or return to God after the death of God. In this volume, an international group of contributors consider what Kearney's spiritual wager means. They question what is at stake with such a wager and what anatheism demands of the self and of others. The essays explore the dynamics of religious anatheistic performativity, its demarcations and limits, and its motives. A recent interview with Kearney focuses on crucial questions about philosophy, theology, and religious commitment. As a whole, this volume interprets and challenges Kearney's philosophy of religion and its radical impact on contemporary views of God.

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Author:   Chris Doude van Troostwijk ,  Matthew Clemente ,  Patrick Burke ,  Richard Colledge
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
ISBN:  

9780253034007

ISBN 10:   0253034000
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   23 April 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: The Risk of the Wager (Chris Doude van Troostwijk and Matthew Clemente) Part I: Conversations after God 1. Theism, Atheism, Anatheism (James Wood and Richard Kearney) 2. A Conversation after God (Chris Doude van Troostwijk and Richard Kearney) 3. Mysticism and Anatheism: The Case of Teresa (Julia Kristeva and Richard Kearney) 4. Anatheist Exchange: Returning to the Body after the Flesh (Emmanuel Falque and Richard Kearney) Part II: At the Limits of Theology 5. The Anatheistic Wager: faith after Faith (Brian Treanor) 6. Archē and Eschaton: Kearney and Desmond on God (Richard Colledge) 7. Is it Possible to be a Reformed Anatheist? (Helgard Pretorius) 8. Anatheism and Inter-religious Hospitality: Reflections from a Catholic Comparative Theologian (Marianne Moyaert) 9. Buddhist Anatheism (Joseph O'Leary) 10. The Wager that Wasn't: An Education in Shady Chances (L. Callid Keefe-Perry) Part III: Poetics of the Sacred 11. Recognition and Hospitality: Coming Back to the Odysseus's Coming Home (Pierre Drouot, trans. Sarah Horton) 12. The Twofold Face of God: an Anatheist Reading of the Sacrifice of Abraham (Jacob Rogozinski) 13. The Apparent God: Biblical Poetics and the End of Time (Theo Hettema) 14. Kearney's Other and the Anatheist Shadow (Patrick Burke) 15. Trauma, Resurrection, and the Anatheistic Wager (Shelley Rambo) Epilogue: From Wager to Art and Back Again (Chris Doude van Troostwijk and Matthew Clemente) Bibliography Index

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These fifteen essays provide thoughtful engagement with Richard Kearney's work that deepens our understanding of anatheism and offers a great addition to continental philosophy of religion. * Reading Religion *

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Matthew Clemente holds the position of Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at Boston College. He is an Adjunct Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion at Newbury College (Massachusetts) and is the author of Out of the Storm: A Novella. Chris Doude van Troostwijk is Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the Luxemburg School of Religion and Society (Luxembourg), and Affiliated Researcher and Lecturer at the Protestant Theological Faculty of the University of Strasbourg (France).

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