"Kearney is one of the most exciting thinkers in the English-speaking world of continental philosophy. . . . and joins hands with its fundamental project, 'what-or who-comes after the God of metaphysics?' " —John D. Caputo Engaging some of the most recent and more urgent issues in the philosophy of religion today, Richard Kearney proposes in this lively book that instead of thinking of God as "actual," God might best be thought of as the possibility of the impossible. By pulling away from biblical perceptions of God and breaking with dominant theological traditions, Kearney draws on the work of Ricoeur, Levinas, Derrida, Heidegger, and others to provide a surprising and original answer to who or what God might be.

Author Biography: Richard Kearney is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College and University College Dublin. He is the author of numerous books on modern philosophy and culture, including Dialogues with Contemporary Continental Thinkers, The Wake of Imagination, and The Poetics of Modernity, as well as two novels and a volume of poetry. His books have been translated in many European languages. In recent years he has been engaged in the debates on ethics, aesthetics and religion with such key continental philosophers as Ricoeur, Derrida, Kristeva, Levinas, and Caputo.