{"product_id":"why-i-am-not-an-atheist-the-confessions-of-a-skeptical-believer-hardcover","title":"Why I Am Not an Atheist: The Confessions of a Skeptical Believer - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristopher Beha\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times's\u003c\/i\u003e anticipated books of February!\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat can I know? What must I do? What may I hope? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNational 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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwenty-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 \u003ci\u003eWhy I Am Not a Christian\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy I Am Not an Atheist\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of this search for secular answers to what Immanuel Kant called the most urgent human questions: \u003ci\u003eWhat can I know? What must I do? What may I hope?\u003c\/i\u003e Along the way, Beha traces the development of what he understands to be the two major atheist worldviews: \u003ci\u003escientific materialism\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eromantic idealism\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeha'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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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. \u003ci\u003eWhy I Am Not an Atheist\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristopher Beha is the former editor of \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of four previous books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Index of Self-Destructive Acts\u003c\/i\u003e, which was nominated for the 2020 National Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.81 x 9.61 x 6.11 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 17, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51966684070189,"sku":"9780593490471","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/h89x88hwac9780593490471.webp?v=1775535310","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/why-i-am-not-an-atheist-the-confessions-of-a-skeptical-believer-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}