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Believe it.(The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World)(Book Review)
The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World, by Alister McGrath (Doubleday, 306 pp., $23.95)
NOT long ago--just 34 years ago, to be exact--"many had come to the view that religion was on its way out," Oxford University theologian Alister McGrath writes in his highly readable new book. In 1970, it seemed that social scientists' predictions were coming true: that first the industrialized West and then the fast-industrializing remainder of the world would follow an inexorable trajectory of secularization. Both the Catholic and the mainline Protestant churches in Europe and North America were in the throes of a crisis of confidence in ...
- An atheist meets his match: atheist Richard Dawkins wrote The God Delusion to...
- Magazine article from: The New American Heiser, James December 24, 2007 700+ words
The God Delusion, by Richard...Dawkins Delusion? by Alister McGrath and Joanna Collicutt...delusional to believe in God, and purports that God's nonexistence is...fact. In response, Alister McGrath, who was once himself...
- Alister McGrath. A Brief History of Heaven.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Utopian Studies Hall-Patton, Mark January 1, 2004 700+ words
Alister McGrath. A Brief History of Heaven. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. x + 203...Christian philosophy through a review of western literary sources. Alister McGrath brings a wide-ranging background to the account, moving effortlessly...
- The God Delusion.(Ethics)(The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the...
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century Lovin, Robin May 6, 2008 700+ words
The God Delusion. By Richard Dawkins...Denial of the Divine. By Alister McGrath and Joanna Collicutt McGrath...Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion, now available...In The Dawkins Delusion? Alister McGrath and Joanna Collicutt McGrath...
- The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith Harvey, Allan H. September 1, 2009 700+ words
...reasonableness to The Reason for God. While the book has some shortcomings...of morality and longing for God) to Christian specifics like...approvingly cites Francis Collins and Alister McGrath; warfare promoters like Henry...theory that might describe how God works, and the philosophical...
- Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Behe, Michael J. August 1, 2005 700+ words
By ALISTER McGRATH. Blackwell 202 pp. $18.95. As both...attitude was that "there is nothing that God does not wish to be investigated and understood...strong Christian who pictured evolution as God's ongoing creation. Who is Dawkins...
- The best good book.(God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible)(Book...
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Dean, Paul October 1, 2003 700+ words
Adam Nicolson God's Secretaries: The Making of the King...s The Making of the English Bible and Alister McGrath's In the Beginning. Little of what...expressed, in those precursors. Too much of God's Secretaries is after dinner history...
- Bickering believers on a transmission from God Radio review
- Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald Barry Didcock July 5, 2009 700+ words
...Jesuit priest, and Dr Mona Siddiqui, director of Glasgow University's Centre for the Study of Islam. We also heard from Alister McGrath, who used to be an atheist and now isn't. In the studio they were scrapping from the start, with Carroll and Grayling...
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- Magazine article from: The Christian Century May 17, 2005 700+ words
...Doubleday 1. Finding God in Unexpected Places by Philip Yancey 2. God Has a Dream: A Vision...the Modern World by Alister McGrath 5. The Restless Heart...Imagination series by Alister McGrath 3. Introducing the...HarperSanFrancisco 1. God's Politics by Jim...
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