The Sacred Stranger: Searching for Meaning After the Death of God
Beyond Nietzsche, beyond despair—the return of transcendence.
In his book Anatheism: Returning to God After God, Richard Kearney writes:
“The only Messiah still credible after the death camps would be one who wanted to come but could not because humans failed to invite the sacred stranger into existence.”
Anatheism literally means “a return to God after God”—from the Greek ana- (again) and theos (God). I…
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