Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.
"If God is sovereign, then his lordship must extend over all of life, and it cannot be restricted to the walls of the church or within the Christian orbit." Abraham Kuyper Common Grace 1.1.
Sunday, 29 October 2006
Eagleton on Dawkins
Terry Eagleton has a review of Dawkins's The God delusion here. (London Review of Books 28 (20) 19 October 2006. Eagleton starts:
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Hi Steve:
You should try this too:
http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/10/29/the-god-conundrum/
And this!
http://www.paulnixon.org/?linkid=1221
I see that "anons" have a little cottage industry trying to diss Terry Eagleton's review. Here's a take which, among other things, explains why his use of language is not inappropriate, as cosmicvariance suggests.
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/barrow/article_06114disaster.shtml
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