Why I Am Not an Atheist
The Confessions of a Skeptical Believer
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Why I Am Not an Atheist
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Christopher Beha
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National Book Award–longlisted author Christopher Beha recounts his struggle with these questions while making an earnest appeal for readers to seek out answers of their own
Twenty-five years ago, celebrated author (and cradle Catholic) Christopher Beha gave up on God. Helped along by a reading of Bertrand Russell’s classic text Why I Am Not a Christian, he became a committed atheist, certain that his days of belief were behind him. A youthful brush with mortality soon set Beha on a decades-long quest for meaning in a godless world.
Why I Am Not an Atheist tells the story of this search for secular answers to what Immanuel Kant called the most urgent human questions: What can I know? What must I do? What may I hope? Along the way, Beha traces the development of what he understands to be the two major atheist worldviews: scientific materialism and romantic idealism.
Beha’s passage through these rival forms of atheism leads him to the surprising conclusion that faith—particularly faith in a created order in which each human life has a meaningful part—preserves the best of both traditions while offering a complete and coherent picture of reality.
This magisterial investigation of the heights of human intellectual achievement is at once deeply personal and universal—grounded in decades of reading and thinking about the problems of suffering, mortality, and ultimate meaning. Why I Am Not an Atheist is not a polemic on behalf of belief but a record of Beha’s long engagement with the enduring human questions, and a call for readers to take up these questions for themselves.
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“This powerful and poignant book lays bare Christoper Beha’s heartfelt and erudite journey from Bertrand Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian to John Henry Newman’s legendary conversion to Catholicism, American-style! Like Dante’s Beatrice, his transformative experience of earthly love opens the windows to genuine divine presence! His literary artistry sparkles as his heart yearns for and burns with transcendence!” —Cornel West, author of Black Prophetic Fire
“What a thrilling and fascinating mind Beha has, and what a brilliant and beautiful (and sometimes very funny) book he has written with Why I Am Not an Atheist! It’s a joy to read him probing the philosophical traditions underlying our contemporary worldviews, and when the book moves into his own attempts to live out various faiths, from atheism to Roman Catholicism, the book doesn’t just offer us a brilliant portrait of sophisticated faith in the modern age but also gives us a genuinely moving narrative of spiritual longing and love.” —Phil Klay, author of Uncertain Ground
“Sometimes a matter of personal, existential urgency will impel a man to start questioning the certainties of his time. Christopher Beha found himself at such a juncture, and the fruit of it is Why I Am Not an Atheist. Beha recovers and reconstructs the steps by which Western man got himself into a jam—that is, how we ended up with a world-picture that renders important swaths of experience unintelligible. We bracket off moments of wonder and grace as unexplainable, and therefore as unreal. The result is a flattened world. But it is not the only world available. In tracing the intellectual genealogy of our superficial metaphysics, Beha clears the way for us to hear the quiet, clear call of . . . well, of something very large that addresses us.” —Matthew B. Crawford, New York Times bestselling author of Shop Class as Soulcraft
“Christopher Beha’s brilliant memoir takes to heart Saint Augustine’s injunction to ‘read your life.’ In doing so, Beha offers his own, deeply personal confrontations with religious faith, even as he examines the philosophical traditions that both underpin and undermine his attempt—anyone’s attempt, really—to respond to that simple and persistent question: How should we live? A profound and honest book that proves intelligent belief is not an oxymoron, that both faith and doubt can nurture the soul.” —Alice McDermott, author of Absolution
“What a thrilling and fascinating mind Beha has, and what a brilliant and beautiful (and sometimes very funny) book he has written with Why I Am Not an Atheist! It’s a joy to read him probing the philosophical traditions underlying our contemporary worldviews, and when the book moves into his own attempts to live out various faiths, from atheism to Roman Catholicism, the book doesn’t just offer us a brilliant portrait of sophisticated faith in the modern age but also gives us a genuinely moving narrative of spiritual longing and love.” —Phil Klay, author of Uncertain Ground
“Sometimes a matter of personal, existential urgency will impel a man to start questioning the certainties of his time. Christopher Beha found himself at such a juncture, and the fruit of it is Why I Am Not an Atheist. Beha recovers and reconstructs the steps by which Western man got himself into a jam—that is, how we ended up with a world-picture that renders important swaths of experience unintelligible. We bracket off moments of wonder and grace as unexplainable, and therefore as unreal. The result is a flattened world. But it is not the only world available. In tracing the intellectual genealogy of our superficial metaphysics, Beha clears the way for us to hear the quiet, clear call of . . . well, of something very large that addresses us.” —Matthew B. Crawford, New York Times bestselling author of Shop Class as Soulcraft
“Christopher Beha’s brilliant memoir takes to heart Saint Augustine’s injunction to ‘read your life.’ In doing so, Beha offers his own, deeply personal confrontations with religious faith, even as he examines the philosophical traditions that both underpin and undermine his attempt—anyone’s attempt, really—to respond to that simple and persistent question: How should we live? A profound and honest book that proves intelligent belief is not an oxymoron, that both faith and doubt can nurture the soul.” —Alice McDermott, author of Absolution
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