{"product_id":"beyond-consolation-how-we-became-too-clever-for-god-and-our-own-good-9781441114211","title":"Beyond Consolation: How we became too \"clever\" for God and our own good","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBeyond Consolation: How we became too \"clever\" for God and our own good\u003c\/strong\u003e by Waters, John. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781441114211.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the late spring of 2008 the acclaimed Irish writer Nuala O Faolain went on a national Irish radio programme to tell the Irish people that she was dying of cancer. She was frightened of death and of the short time left to her.\n\nHere was a spokesperson for a generation which now conjured up an abyss for itself, reviewing a culture she had inhabited and helped to create one last time. She believed neither in an afterlife nor in God.\n\nWith Nuala O Faolains broadcast as his point of departure, Waters examines this trajectory of Irish Culture to this point of despair. How reasonable is it to believe in nothing? He explores a new language to excavate the journey of Irish society from what appeared to be profound in its traditional faith to this moment of what might easily have been taken as a moment of nihilistic clarity. What modern men and women suffer from in modern culture is the lack of an idea of the infinite and the eternal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Continuum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45115495088181,"sku":"ByrdShop_1441114211","price":224.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781441114211_aa32ee36-cd56-44bb-87ba-c39af77f9612.jpg?v=1781102537","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/beyond-consolation-how-we-became-too-clever-for-god-and-our-own-good-9781441114211","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}