IU-I Professor Erik Saak’s latest work, Confessions of a Heretic. Volume One: Philosophical Considerations, is written for all those who have struggled with the concept of God. It is the first of a planned three-volume systematic theology. It seeks to answer the question of how can one believe in God when horrible things happen, from personal tragedy and trauma, to natural disasters and war. The answer is not a comforting one, and argues that the established religious traditions, including Christianity, and especially Christianity in America, are idolatrous, based on an idolatrous conception of God. Yet to see how this is so, we have to delve into philosophical arguments regarding Being, Time, Reality, and the very understanding of what a human being actually is, whereby the argument proposes a radical reconceptualization of the Western philosophical tradition on these issues. Click here to purchase the book.
