Anatheism: “faith beyond faith in a God beyond God” (A, 3). How are we to think of this twofold “beyond”?Whois this God beyond God? How does he reveal himself, and in what sense can he still be called “God”?Anatheism: Returning to God after Godby Richard Kearney raises these questions, among others. According to Kearney, the conversion, themetanoia—or, to say it in Hebrew, theteshuva—which leads to anatheism, implies the crossing of an “atheistic moment,” the experience of distress at the “death of God,” the opening of a new, unique, heretofore unheard-of experience of...
