The Mystery of Being: The Presence and Absence of God

The Mystery of Being comes out of the tradition of Christian intellectualism. It combines a philosophical approach to understanding God with describing the evolution of the idea of God in the Old Testament, while seeking to examine and present the simultaneously powerful and caring image of God in the New Testament. It offers a thought-out approach to God that suggests how many of today's atheist authors only reject a caricature of the Ground of Being.

James O'Connell was professor of peace studies at the University of Bradford from 1978 to 1993, before which he taught in Ireland, Nigeria and the United States.