Anthony Kronman is Sterling Professor of Law and a former dean at Yale Law School. He is the author of Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan and Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life. He lives on Block Island, RI.

Though we can never reach God, as religion promises, we cannot give up the longing to do so either, and are able to make progress if we try. That is the message of this resolutely humanistic yet theologically inspired book, which offers a rational path to the love of God amidst the disenchantments of our time.