Article: The God Who May Be: A Hermeneutics of Religion

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The God Who May Be: A Hermeneutics of Religion. By Richard Kearney. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2001, ix + 172 pp., $19.95 paper.

In The God Who May Be, Richard Kearney proposes a new definition of God that he is willing to "wage" will help solve the problems he sees in historic theism. He has studied with such thinkers as John Caputo and Jacques Derrida, and their influence is visible. Kearney's goal is to encourage humans to live in a way that reflects love and justice, and in so doing this makes the possible God increasingly actual. He gives three reasons to support his view and to give it viability. First, it will help us overcome our prejudices by reminding ...

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