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<p><P>Alister McGrath and Joanna Collicutt McGrath present a reliable assessment of The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, famed atheist and scientist, and the many questions this book raises&#151;including, above all, the relevance of faith and the quest for meaning.</p> <h3>Publishers Weekly</h3> <p><P>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 <I>The God Delusion</I>, 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 <I>The Blind Watchmaker</I>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 fr

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Author

Alister E. McGrath, Joanna Collicutt Mcgrath, Joanna Collicutt McGrath

Publisher

Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781461937548

Category

religious

Subjects

Religion, Philosophy

Rating

3.34 / 5 (1,068 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14