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The New Atheists
Tina Beattie
其他書名
The Twilight of Reason and the War on Religion
出版Orbis Books, 2007
主題Religion / GeneralReligion / AtheismReligion / TheologyReligion / Religion & Science
ISBN15707578289781570757822
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hlPuAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋A recent spate of bestsellers (Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, Christopher Hitchins, God is Not Great) have popularized a new form militant atheism claiming not only that religion is an illusion but that it is the source of most of the world's ills. Tina Beattie, an English Catholic feminist theologian, does not set out to confront these works head on, proving the existence of God or defending the virtues of religion. She does not believe in the God rejected by these atheists, and she readily concedes the evils done in the name of religion. Rather, after situating these new atheists in their historical/cultural context as part of a longstanding tension between science and religion, she shifts the debate in the direction of an approach to religion that emphasizes the realm of symbol, imagination, and creativity.