Theology for Unbelievers. It is not common to find on the shelves of bookstores or department stores a book by a contemporary philosopher that sets out to talk about God and his relationship with man, and moreover, that these pages are directed to those who do not believe, or to those who cannot overcome their lack of faith or cannot find the path to a joyful and serene encounter with God.

It is truly refreshing that in these postmodern times, characterized by a narrow and narrow-minded approach, someone offers us a text brimming with humor and profound philosophical and theological insight. And yet, it avoids abstruse and complicated passages: everything in this book flows with the naturalness of a friendly chat or a conversation at the dinner table. Ultimately, this is a book that champions reason and its most sublime exercise: reflecting on God in order to know Him, praise Him, and address Him. And all of this is presented without neglecting the daily lives of contemporary men and women.

The author is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Seville and a member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of Madrid. He is also the author of several books and a professor at European and American universities.

The prologue is written by Olegario González de Cardedal and the book consists of twenty short chapters, seemingly unconnected since it is not a manual or a systematic study but a kind of intellectual narrative in which the author pours out his life experience and his recovery of the Catholic faith.

The topics are varied, from personal events that marked his path to faith, lost in the storms of ’68, to letters from a teacher who regained his faith to a student who has lost it, the arguments to demonstrate the existence of God, the immodesty of relativism, comments on films such as Lourdes, The Passion of the Christ or Silence, the problem of evil, the antipathy of believers, clericalism, the greatness of freedom and hope or religion and mental illness.

Another virtue of this brief essay is its elegant respect for the reader’s freedom, without imposing any ideas or concealing the doubts or uncertainties the author perceives in his own life or in the lives of some Catholics. It offers no conventional or closed answers to the mysteries of life and faith. Ultimately, it is an invitation to exercise reason to its fullest extent while reflecting on God. At the same time, it emphasizes that faith is not merely a matter of intellect or will, but an act of the person.