Faithful to the Earth: Nietzsche and Whitehead on God and the Meaning of Human Life - Hardcover

Good comparative philosophy is insightful in the contrasts drawn as well as the significant comparisons. Howe's study of Nietzsche and Whitehead succeeds on both accounts. Howe is especially persuasive in rejecting Nietzsche's unilateral value creation as opposed to Whitehead's reciprocal approach to a value laden world. -- Nicholas F. Gier, Coordinator of Religious Studies, University of Idaho Howe has done a remarkable job in bringing together two very unlikely but important thinkers. Thanks to his pervasive reading and fine writing skills, Howe's thesis goes far beyond a mere comparison and contrast of Whitehead and Nietzsche and offers some forceful and informed thoughts about human life. -- Tad Beckman, Professor emeritus, Harvey Mudd College J. Thomas Howe has now, in an insightful and eminently readable study, produced the first full-scale comparison of the thought of Nietzsche and Whitehead. Showing that they do indeed have much in common, Howe gives equal attention to their basic difference: whether affirmation of life in the world requires the death of God or only the death of supernaturalism. -- David Ray Griffin, author of Reenchantment without Supernaturalism

Faithful to the Earth, winner of the Bross Prize for Christian Scholarship that is awarded only once every 10 years, goes way beyond contrasting the theist with the atheist. J. Thomas Howe argues that Alfred North Whitehead's understanding of God lays the foundation for a religious life strikingly similar to that described in Friedrich Nietzsche's tragic, but affirmative, philosophy.