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Author: Alina N Feld (Adjunct Associate Professor in Philosophy and Religion, York College, CUNY, USA.) ,
Sean J. McGrath (Professor of Philosophy and Theology, Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781399532228
ISBN 10: 1399532227
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 31 May 2026
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
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Reviews
No one has done more to transform the contemporary study of religion than Ray L. Hart. Deeply grounded in, but not limited by, the western theological and philosophical tradition, Hart sets the highest standards for mutual understanding and scholarly communication among people holding different worldviews. As this important collection of essays by distinguished scholars makes clear, God Being Nothing represents the culmination of his remarkable spiritual and intellectual journey. By rigorously rethinking the seemingly obsolete tradition of speculative metaphysics, Hart and his commentators create a redemptive vision for today’s nihilistic culture. -- Mark C. Taylor, Professor of Religion, Columbia University This is a moving tribute to Ray Hart that exhibits eloquently just how and why he is one of the most challenging as well as original theologians of our time. Eighteen eminent scholars bear out Hart’s genius for articulating a meontology in which God is conceived as Nothing in his very transcendence. A must read for anyone who cares about the future of theology in this deeply troubling moment. -- Edward S. Casey, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Stony Brook University Unfinished God is a worthy tribute to Ray Hart, an elder statesman and ground-breaking pioneer of radical theology in the United States. Hart’s bold thinking ventures into the Godhead beyond God of Eckhart, the dark powers described by Böhme and Schelling, speculatively exploring the genesis of God, world, and humankind. One after another, the essays in this superb collection show the much-needed shock Hart delivers to orthodoxy and the openings he has created for a theology to come. -- John D. Caputo, Professor Emeritus of Religion, Syracuse University Ray Hart’s theology is an underappreciated treasure, which these intrepid editors—Feld and McGrath—tirelessly labour to unearth. Assessing the trajectory of Hart’s work from Unfinished Man and the Imagination to God Being Nothing, Unfinished God charts a course for radical renewal of philosophical theology in our post-orthodox and post-secular world. -- Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas and Global Centre for Advanced Studies Unfinished God is a timely critical engagement with the original thought of Ray Hart. The editors, Sean McGrath and Alina Feld, have done a remarkable job in marshalling a robust series of reflections on the vital liaison dangereuse between philosophy and theology. It lights bonfires in the mind. -- Richard Kearney, Charles Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College From the epistemological problem of revelation in Unfinished Man and the Imagination to the metaphysical theogony of God Being Nothing, Ray Hart has eloquently argued that God is neither fully present nor wholly absent. In this collection of essays his leading interlocutors develop this idea in fascinating ways. -- Andrew Cutrofello, Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago
Author Information
Alina N. Feld is Adjunct Associate Professor at the City University of New York and the author of Melancholy and the Otherness of God (Lexington Books, 2011), book chapters, and articles in philosophical theology. She received her MA in comparative literature from Stony Brook University and her PhD in theology from Boston University where she studied with Ray L. Hart. Her recent publications include: ‘Transparency of the Good’, in D. G. Leahy and the Thinking Now Occurring (SUNY Press, 2021), ‘Melancholia: Passing Through and Beyond’, in The Philosophy of Julia Kristeva (Open Court Publishing, 2020), ‘Thinking the Absolute Edge between Altizer and Leahy’ (Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 19, no. 1, 2020), ‘Hinduism and Eastern Christianity’, in Palgrave Handbook for Radical Theology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), ‘Van Gogh’s Dark Illuminations: The End of Art or the Art of the End’, in Van Gogh among the Philosophers: Painting, Thinking, Being (Lexington Books, 2017). Sean J. McGrath is Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Memorial University of Newfoundland and a Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of The Philosophical Foundations of the Late Schelling: The Turn to the Positive (EUP, 2021), Thinking Nature. An Essay in Negative Ecology (EUP, 2019), The Dark Ground of Spirit: Schelling and the Unconscious(Routledge, 2012), Heidegger. A Very Critical Introduction (William B. Eerdmans, 2008) and The Early Heidegger and Medieval Philosophy (Catholic University of America Press, 2006). He is editor of The Palgrave Macmillan Handbook to Schelling (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2020), Rethinking German Idealism (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016) and A Companion to Heidegger’s Phenomenology of Religious Life (Rodopi, 2010).
