'The God Delusion' - perhaps the clue is in the title. Opening this book and finding the author happily concluding that religious belief is reasonable would come as something of a surprise. 'You are all quite right to believe as you do' would be a dull book.
We should as adults be able to differentiate between the question of ultimate causes (which is marvellously contradictory) and the...
This is an amazing book. By the end, you real feel like you know Anne. She's an incredible girl, and tells of her amazing journey through teenage life in hiding. This book is filled with powerful emotions, there are sad bits, frightening bits and happy bits. I just couldn't put it down. As you read about Anne's life, you began to feel you know her, and when you find out what happens to her at...
This book deserves to be read! It is the most inspiring and informative book I've read in a while.
Hitchens has a very well informed point of view. The book should be required reading for all 16+ students of RE, if only to counter-balance the apologist drivel which is (at best) what's usually pushed on our children. (If you're reading this from the US then your kids are probably being...
This book is among the more disturbing and sensattionalist of the current fashion for anti-religious discussion.
What began (I believe) with Richard Dawkins and continued with Christopher Hitchens and others is being taken a step further here by Sam Harris. As happens when you want to be heard, you have to shout a little louder than the last person to be heard and Sam Harris does just...
Conversations with God started when the author in the midst of a frustrating low-point in his life wrote a letter to God and was replied to. The book takes the format of the author questioning and God answering him. The theme that runs continually through the book is to remember our divine origins. Walsch's book makes God accessible in an almost secular way, different to our Bible-based one....
Never having encountered a book by the "world's most assertive astrophysicist" or one by the "world's zaniest zoologist", Flew's subtitle came as something novel. Compounded by the fact that i'd never heard of him - my not being a scholar in "atheism" - it would have been easy to pass this by as a crank's production. However, at the insistence of some respected colleagues, i was impelled to give it...
In this post-Dawkian world of militant, bulldog Atheism, we've seen a whole host of Christian apologists spring up with varying degrees of success, trying to claw back some of the authoratitive ground they once so fondly held. Ward's book attempts to find answer to just the philosophical arguments contained within THE GOD DELUSION (chapters 2 - 4) and therein lays both its strength and weakness.
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This is a set book for the Open University course A200 (1400 to 1900 - From Medieval to Modern), so if you're signed up for the course, then you need it. If you're not signed up for the course, then it's difficult to assess whether it will deliver what you need, as the examples presented are chosen to complement the course itself. There is a wide range of primary source material here from a very...
"A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief," is the subtitle of this book. My review will assess this claim.
Collins presents 2 types of evidence. He tells us there are features of our world that need a supernatural explanation. He believes the universal longing for God means God must exist.
1. There are features of our world that need a supernatural explanation.
Collins describes...
In many ways this book acts as a popular level summary of Wright's recent thinking, and that is both its strength and ultimately also its weakness. The book's big idea is that Jesus' bodily resurrection is not a one off event but rather the forerunner of the general resurrection, and that this is the key which makes sense of a great deal of new testament thinking, in the gospels and the letters and...
