Eagleton, Terry
Summary: On the one hand, Eagleton demolishes what he calls the "superstitious" view of God held by most atheists and agnostics and offers in its place a revolutionary account of the Christian Gospel. On the other hand, he launches a stinging assault on the betrayal of this revolution by institutional Christianity. There is little joy here, then, either for the anti-God brigade -- Richard Dawkins and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.21 EAGSummary: "Consists of twelve essays written by twelve different authors from five different countries who all have one thing in common: they were once atheists or agnostics but then came to Christian faith through engaging with the thinking of the New Atheist Richard Dawkins. The authors include academics, journalists, a civil servant, a church pastor, an engineering manager, a counselor, a graphic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kregel Publications 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.2 COMTaunton, Larry.
Summary: In The Faith of Christopher Hitchens, Taunton offers a very personal perspective of one of our most interesting and most misunderstood public figures. Writing with genuine compassion and without compromise, Taunton traces Hitchens’s spiritual and intellectual development from his decision as a teenager to reject belief in God to his rise to prominence as one of the so-called “Four Horsemen” of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HITCHENS, CHRISTOPHER TAUSmith, George H.
Contents: Coming to terms -- A bugaboo epithet -- The methodology of atheism -- Occam's Razor -- Belief and doubt -- Belief and knowledge -- Ayn Rand's theory of knowledge -- Belief and free will -- Cognitive determinism -- Thomas Aquinas -- John Locke -- Why philosophy? -- The career of reason -- Francis Bacon -- Theology and metaphysics -- Arthur Schopenhauer -- Metaphysical muddles: the ontological...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2000