{"product_id":"why-i-am-not-an-atheist-the-confessions-of-a-skeptical-believer-9780593490471","title":"Why I Am Not an Atheist: The Confessions of a Skeptical Believer","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times's\u003c\/i\u003e anticipated books of February!\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Beha\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.11w x 1.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593490471\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Christopher Beha \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":47674885996701,"sku":"9780593490471","price":47.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_99f3b92e-6ac1-43ed-9cc2-06671a5b9982.jpg?v=1771915594","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/why-i-am-not-an-atheist-the-confessions-of-a-skeptical-believer-9780593490471","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}