R Stiffler wrote: > Yes indeed! Imagine no Politics, Greed, Singular Control, Subversion? Why > not freedom? Is indeed control and management what keeps a populace in > check. I can't imagine why you want to seek the 'Atheist' they won't admit > to the truth if presented. At least an 'Agnostic' is willing, similar to a > scientist and only wants proof......
The God Who May Be: A Hermeneutics of Religion By Richard Kearney (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion), Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001; 192 pp.; hb. $ 19.95, pb. $ 49.95; isbn:0-253-33998-7/0-253-21489-0. review by Lieven Boeve Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium [1] In this volume Richard Kearney takes up the challenge to reþect on God after the God of metaphysics¹. In the introduction he presents this volume as a kind of assemblage of thoughts on God, stemming from his doctoral studies on Ricoeur and the co-editing of Heidegger et la question de Dieu (with J. O¹Leary, 1981), and more recently his contributions to the Villanova Conferences on religion and postmodernism¹ (1997, 1999). How is it possible to overcome the old notion of God as disembodied cause, devoid of dynamism and desire, in favor of a more eschatological notion of God as possibility to come: the posse which calls us beyond the present toward a promised future?¹ (3) How is it possible to think God post-onto-theologically? Kearney¹s intuition, his wager¹, is to conceive of God in terms of a God who may be¹, who is May-Be¹, a possible God¹, a God more than impossible¹, with as Þrst name, borrowed from Nicolaus Cusanus: Possest. The God who may be is the God from the kingdom to come, an eschatological God, a God of promise and of powerlessness, of justice and peace, who persuades human beings to answer his call to realize the kingdom. Inspired by and in discussion with many contemporary thinkers from the so-called continental tradition, Levinas, Derrida, Ricoeur, Marion, Caputo, Breton, and Greisch among others, Kearney sketches the outlines of a narrative [onto-]eschatology¹ (8) that favors the possible over the actual, posse over esse. The methodological approach of this reþection on religion is of a phenomenological nature, supplemented with a hermeneutical retrieving of inspiring insights from the main texts of the Western Judeo-Christian philosophical and intellectual history. This exercise takes the form of an attempt to resist both classical onto-theology and postmodern negative theology... more http://www.arsdisputandi.org/publish/articles/000187/index.html
