The invisible source of authority : God in a secular age / David Walsh.
| Author/creator | Walsh, David, 1950- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2025] |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | xi, 175 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | God in a secular age |
| Series | The beginning and the beyond of politics Beginning and the beyond of politics. ^A1412280 |
| Contents | How can we forget what we must remember? -- The Spiritual escapes us -- Symbols hide what they say -- Atheism is impossible in pratice -- God beyond being -- The invisible source of authority. |
| Abstract | "How does one reject God while denying belief? This is the central paradox of our secular age, where efforts to erase God only affirmhis presence. In The Invisible Source of Authority, David Walsh examines this paradox and argues that a secular world actually reveals God more clearly, rather than bringing about what has been called the death of God. Unlike many critics of modernity, Walsh argues that secularism is not inhospitable to authentic religious faith and cannot be understood without reference to God. Drawing on the writings of early modern thinkers like Montaigne, Descartes, and Grotius, Walsh asserts that God's absence from the secular world is testimony to God's transcendence. Because the secular is always that which has withdrawn from serving God, Walsh suggests that this presupposition proves that God remains indispensable to the self-understanding of secular society. The Invisible Source of Authority seeks to remind us that, despite his seeming absence, the transcendent God remains an essential presence."-- Back cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 9780268209575 |
| ISBN | 0268209561 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9780268209568 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 026820957X (paperback) |
| ISBN | (WebPDF) |
| ISBN | (Epub3) |
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