TY - BOOK AU - Kronman,Anthony T. TI - Confessions of a born-again pagan SN - 0300224915 AV - B805 .K76 2016eb U1 - 191 23 PY - 2016///] CY - New Haven, London PB - Yale University Press KW - Philosophy, Modern KW - 21st century KW - God KW - Metaphysics KW - Philosophy KW - Religious Philosophies KW - Philosophie KW - 21e siècle KW - Dieu KW - Métaphysique KW - metaphysics KW - aat KW - philosophy KW - PHILOSOPHY KW - History & Surveys KW - Modern KW - bisacsh KW - fast N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Prologue --; Introduction --; Part One; Gratitude; The good of gratitude : dependence, acceptance and being at home in the world; A world of rights : the expulsion of love and gratitude from public life; "Endless gratitude so burdensome"; Christian theology and Western civilization --; Part Two; Pride; Greatness of soul : Aristotle's philosophy of pride; Givers and takers : the good of self-sufficiency; The eternal and divine : what everything desires; The best life of all : politics and contemplation; Friendship : Gratitude and human fulfillment; The first cosmopolitan; Plato's discovery of an invisible self; Preparatio evangelica : Stoicism on the way to Christian thought --; Part Three; Salvation; Creation : making, begetting and creating; Will : human freedom and the problem of evil; Grace : divine omnipotence and the Augustinian dilemma; "Not a sparrow falls" : the abolition of the distinction between form and matter; The contingency of the world : that whose essence is to exist; The Pagan temptation : Aquinas and the Aristotelian revival; God unchained : Ockham's defense of divine freedom; Theology of the cross : the Lutheran reformation; The hatred of man : Augustine redux; The absolute spontaneity of freedom : Kant's Christian metaphysics; Our better selves : the morality of autonomy; God becomes a postulate : Reason, freedom and Kant's defense of divine grace; Reaction : Joseph de Maistre's revolt against pride; "Fantastic and satanic" : the illiberal theology of Donoso Cortes and Carl Schmitt; The oblivion of being : Martin Heidegger's reconstruction of Western philosophy; The disenchantment of the world : Max Weber and the problem of nihilism --; Part four; Joy; The worm in the blood : Spinoza's conception of science; The god of sufficient reason : physics after Spinoza; "Endless forms most beautiful" : Darwin's divine biology; The navel of the dream : Freud and the science of the mind; "Man is a god to man" : the modern research ideal; The world as an aesthetic phenomenon : art, truth and morality in Nietzsche's philosophy; The spider in the moonlight : Nietzsche's interpretation of the will to power as art; "The gift of transmigration" : the theology of the modern novel; Genius and sublimity : painting since the Renaissance; Theological, not political : John Raul's Christian defense of liberal democracy; Democratic vistas : Walt Whitman and the divinity of diversity --; Epilogue : "Downward to darkness, on extended wings" N2 - "We live in an age of disenchantment. The number of self-professed "atheists" continues to grow. Yet many still feel an intense spiritual longing for a connection to what Aristotle called the "eternal and divine." For those who do, but demand a God that is compatible with their modern ideals, a new theology is required. This is what Anthony Kronman offers here, in a book that leads its readers away from the inscrutable Creator of the Abrahamic religions toward a God whose inexhaustible and everlasting presence is that of the world itself. Kronman defends an ancient conception of God, deepened and transformed by Christian belief--the born-again paganism on which modern science, art, and politics all vitally depend. Brilliantly surveying centuries of Western thought--from Plato to Augustine, Aquinas, and Kant, from Spinoza to Nietzsche, Darwin, and Freud--Kronman recovers and reclaims the God we need today." -- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1362427 ER -