{"product_id":"9780593490471","title":"Why I Am Not an Atheist","description":"\u003cb\u003eNamed One of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e’s Best Books of 2026\u003cbr\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times’s\u003c\/i\u003e anticipated books of February!\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat can I know? What must I do? What may I hope?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Christopher Beha","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":45250572615734,"sku":"9780593490471","price":41.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0696\/2026\/9110\/files\/why-i-am-not-an-atheist-7992989.jpg?v=1775489910","url":"https:\/\/shopsaturdaymorning.ca\/products\/9780593490471","provider":"Saturday Morning","version":"1.0","type":"link"}