{"product_id":"why-i-am-not-an-christopher-beha-9780593490471","title":"Why I Am Not an Atheist: The Confessions of a Skeptical Believer","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat can I know? What must I do? What may I hope?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFormer editor of \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e and National Book Award long-listed author Christopher Beha's own struggle with these questions, and an earnest appeal for readers to arrive at 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: \"scientific materialism\" and \"romantic idealism.\" \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 various atheist efforts to address the problems of human 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 own working out of these questions, and a call for readers to arrive at answers of their own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Beha\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0593490479\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593490471\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs","brand":"Christopher Beha","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47135165612287,"sku":"9780593490471","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5feae6cd-6560-431e-b0cb-00c30dbeffa6.jpg?v=1755009344","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/why-i-am-not-an-christopher-beha-9780593490471","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}