{"product_id":"why-i-am-not-an-atheist-the-confessions-of-a-skeptical-believer","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.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0593490479\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780593490471\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Beha, Christopher\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (Feb 2026)","offer_id":46080916783301,"sku":"9780593490471","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780593490471.jpg?v=1776041658","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/why-i-am-not-an-atheist-the-confessions-of-a-skeptical-believer","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}