Anatheism: Returning to God After God
10 best books like Anatheism: Returning to God After God (Richard Kearney): The Strange Bird: A Borne Story, Underland, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe, The Philosophy of the X-Files, The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event, BodyWorld, Six Questions of Socrates: A Modern-Day Journey of Discovery through World Philosophy, Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity, A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age, On Religion
The Strange Bird: A Borne Story
The Strange Bird—from New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeer—is a digital original that expands and weaves deeply into the world of his “thorough marvel”* of a novel, Borne.
The Strange Bird is a new kind of creature, built in a laboratory—she is part bird, part human, part...
| Author | Robert Macfarlane |
| ISBN | 0393242145 |
An exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.
In this sequel to The Old Ways, Macfarlane takes us on an journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through...
The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe
| Author | Richard Rohr |
| ISBN | 1524762091 |
Richard Rohr, one of the world's most influential spiritual thinkers, delivers his long-awaited book on Jesus. In this radical message of hope, Rohr shows how "Jesus" + "Christ" reveal the divine wholeness at the heart of things--and what that means for every one of us.
In his decades as a globally...
| Author | Dean A. Kowalski |
| ISBN | 0813124549 |
From its first appearance in 1993, The X-Files has attracted millions of viewers interested in the paranormal investigations of intuitionist and belief-driven Fox Mulder and his partner, Dana Scully, the "consummate scientist" and skeptic. Addressing questions of trust and authority that plague...
| Author | John D. Caputo |
| ISBN | 0253218284 |
Applying an ever more radical hermeneutics (including Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology, Derridian deconstruction, and feminism), John D. Caputo breaks down the name of God in this irrepressible book. Instead of looking at God as merely a name, Caputo views it as an event, or what the name...
I have the feeling that from time to time I will need to look at all of the Dash Shaw books I have read and not appreciated and rethink my evaluations of them. This one I think might be my favorite so far, though it may just be that I am starting to gain a greater appreciation for what he is doing. I never know exactly...
| Author | Christopher Phillips |
| ISBN | 0393326799 |
What is virtue? What is moderation? What is justice? What is courage? What is good? What is piety? Socrates thought that understanding the perspectives of others on these six great questions would help him become a more excellent human being. Following in Socrates's footsteps, Christopher Phillips—"Johnny...
| Author | Rebecca Goldstein |
| ISBN | 0805242090 |
Part of the Jewish Encounter series
In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original....
When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published--"godless," "full of abominations," "a book forged in hell . . . by the devil himself." Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat to faith, social and political...
On Religion is a thrilling and accessible exploration of religion faith today. If God is dead, why is religion back? Digging up the roots of all things religious, John D. Caputo inspects them with clarity and style. Along the way, some fascinating questions crop up: What do I love when I love my God? What...
Lost Knowledge of the Imagination
The ability to imagine is at the heart of what makes us human. Through our imagination we experience more fully the world both around us and within us. Imagination plays a key role in creativity and innovation.
Until the seventeenth century, the human imagination was celebrated. Since then, with...
| Author | Ada Limon |
| ISBN | 1571315128 |
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carrying—her most powerful collection yet.
Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the...
