The Dawkins Delusion?: Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine. Alister McGrath, Joanna Collicutt McGrath

The Dawkins Delusion?: Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine



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The Dawkins Delusion?: Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine Alister McGrath, Joanna Collicutt McGrath ebook pdf
Publisher: IVP Books
Language: English
Page: 115
ISBN: 083083446X, 9780830834464

From Publishers Weekly

When authors write books that criticize other books, they have usually already lost; the original book has set the agenda to which the critics respond, and the outcome is foretold. Not in this case. The McGraths expeditiously plow into the flank of Dawkins's fundamentalist atheism, made famous in The God Delusion, and run him from the battlefield. The book works partly because they are so much more gracious to Dawkins than Dawkins is to believers: Dawkins's The Blind Watchmaker remains the finest critique of William Paley's naturalistic arguments for deism available, for example. The authors can even point to instances in which their interactions with him, both literary and personal, have changed his manner of arguing: he can no longer say that Tertullian praised Christian belief because of its absurdity or that religion necessarily makes one violent. The McGraths are frustrated, then, that Dawkins continues to write on the a priori, nonscientific assumption that religious believers are either deluded or meretricious, never pausing to consider the evidence not in his favor or the complex beliefs and practices of actual Christians. They conclude disquietingly: perhaps Dawkins is aware that demagogic ranting that displays confidence in the face of counterevidence is the way to sway unlearned masses. (July) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Review

"Addressing the conclusions of The God Delusion point by point with the devastating insight of a molecular biologist turned theologian, Alister McGrath dismantles the argument that science should lead to atheism, and demonstrates instead that Dawkins has abandoned his much-cherished rationality to embrace an embittered manifesto of dogmatic atheist fundamentalism." -- --Francis Collins, Director of the Human Genome Project"Alister McGrath invariably combines enormous scholarship with an accessible and engaging style." -- --Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury"McGrath has distinguished himself . . . as an historical theologian, [and] a generous, . . . witty writer who brings to life topics that would turn to dust in others' hands." -- --Publishers Weekly"The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why." -- --Michael Ruse, Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Program in the History and Philosophy of Science, Department of Philosophy, Florida State University"With rigorous logic and exquisite fairness, the McGraths have exposed Dawkins's very superficial understanding of the history of religion and theology. Because he is so 'out of his depth' in these areas, Dawkins uses his fundamentalistic scientism and atheism to constantly misjudge the possibilities for dialogue between religion and science. Thank God for scholars like the McGraths who are committed to finding truth in both." -- --Dr. Timothy Johnson, physician, journalist and author of Finding God in the Questions



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