Spiritual Atheism

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By Steve Antinoff

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Spiritual Atheism explores a profound dilemma in Western spiritual thought: the loss of faith in traditional paths to the Divine and the human place in the cosmos. Steve Antinoff examines this tension through the perspective of Kirilov from Dostoyevsky's The Possessed, grappling with the necessity yet nonexistence of God. The book outlines three core realisations that define spiritual atheism—our deep dissatisfaction with self and world, the imperative to overcome this dissatisfaction, and the absence of God—offering a fresh lens on spirituality beyond belief in deity.
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This book will engage readers interested in contemporary spiritual discourse, atheism, and philosophical questions about meaning and existence. It is particularly suited for those seeking a thoughtful, non-theistic perspective on salvation and enlightenment in modern life.

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Over the last 160 years, a great dilemma has been hatching out of Western spiritual consciousness. In our modern existence, we have lost faith in the traditional routes by which human beings have come to experience the Divine, and an acceptance of oneself as having a place in the order of the universe.

In Spiritual Atheism, Steve Antinoff argues that the dilemma burning within the West has been given its most fundamental expression by Kirilov in Dostoyevsky's The Possessed: "God is necessary, and so must exist... Yet I know that he doesn't exist, and can't exist... But don't you understand that a man with two such ideas cannot go on living?"

According to Antinoff, spiritual atheism begins with three realisations: that our experience of ourselves and our world leaves us ultimately dissatisfied, that our dissatisfaction is intolerable and so must be broken through, and that there is no God.

Continuing where such writers as Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris left off, Antinoff's unique and prescient take on deity and spirituality makes this book a critical contribution to the understanding of the quest for salvation and enlightenment in a world full of chaos and need.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781582435640

Publisher: Counterpoint

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 January 2010

Country: United States

Imprint: Counterpoint

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 177.0mm

Weight: 149g

Pages: 120

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Non-Fiction Religion & Spirituality Steve Antinoff

About the Author

Steve Antinoff was born in 1949. Questions he could not answer led him to train at a Zen monastery in Kyoto. He stayed in Japan for many years. Later he lived in Rome. Along the way he obtained a doctorate in religion. Currently he teaches philosophy and religion at Philadelphia's University of the Arts.