If God Is the Answer, What Is the Question?

What is the question to which God might be the answer?

You can argue about God forever, and not change your mind. Believers and non-believers often talk at cross purposes, both failing to grasp what is really going on when we argue about God. So where do we go when the facts run out? Philosophy.

Braiding the thought of the Stoics, Spinoza, Kant and other leading philosophers together with meditations on religious experience, Christopher Insole takes us beyond the limits of reason to a place where we might find empathy and reverence for all of our fellow persons, each in the struggle to live a meaningful life. If we can learn to talk about God with care, we might understand ourselves and others better, as the vulnerable, mortal creatures we are.

Christopher Insole is Professor of Philosophical Theology and Ethics at the University of Durham. He is the author of Negative Natural Theology as well as two major works on Kant’s thought: Kant and the Divine and The Intolerable God.