The Unknown God: Sermons Responding to the New Atheists
Overview
What is the so-called New Atheism? The first decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed a cluster of authors who have attained public notoriety through their berating of religion and their popularizing of atheism. How should Christians and other believers understand and respond to this attack on their faith? In this collection of sermons, leading academic theologians and philosophers who have written about the New Atheists seek to sum up their thinking and help us make sense of this contemporary phenomenon—and offer a richer and more sophisticated account of what belief in God is really about.
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Top Highlights
“Without reason, we perish, but reason does not go all the way down” (Page 6)
“Why did God create atheists? It’s a whimsical question that the Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, has posed on several occasions. His answer is that they prevent us from believing the wrong things or investing too much in matters of secondary importance.” (Page 14)
“To be in love is a bond, a commitment, a project, an experience, an act of self-giving. It is something one does, not just a condition one happens to be in like having chicken pox or a fiver in the bank.” (Pages 4–5)
“Ivan is not so much saying: take away God and everything is permitted; he is saying that he knows that God does not exist, and that is why adults have the freedom to abuse children.” (Page 70)
“aradoxically, it’s often in the deepest mystery of suffering that humanity encounters the deepest mystery of God.” (Page 83)
- Title: The Unknown God: Sermons Responding to the New Atheists
- Author: John A. Hughes
- Publisher: Cascade
- Print Publication Date: 2013
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 126
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Christianity and atheism
- ISBNs: 9781610975797, 1610975790
- Resource ID: LLS:NKNWNGDSRMNSRSP
- Resource Type: text.monograph.sermons
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:51:52Z