Returning To God After God: Anatheism

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Anatheism
Theism is the belief in a God who is the creator of all things. Atheism, on the other hand, is the belief that there is no God or creator of all things. Throughout history there has been quite the battle between these two ways of thinking. Theist rely mostly on faith for what is true while atheists defend themselves with scientific thought. Some religious thinkers have even changed their stance on what they believe is true. Others can not seem to make up their minds and switch back and forth till they find a happy middle ground. Religion is a sticky topic with those that feel passionate about either side of belief. I personally believe that Anatheism is the best kind of belief because it involves a difficult journey about finding yourself and what you truly believe in.
Anatheism is defined by Richard Kearney in his essay Returning to God After God: Levinas, Derrida, Ricoeur as “a double and supplementary gesture of abandonment and retrieval of God”. In his essay Kearney uses the thoughts of Levinas, Derrida, and Ricoeur to explain a new type of theism in which you must first lose all belief in God before you can return to see God in a new way. This new belief accepts the death of God as a way to free ourselves from idols and blindness worship.
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