Reason, Faith, & Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate
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On the one hand, Eagleton demolishes what he calls the "superstitious" view of God held by most atheists and agnostics and offers in its place a revolutionary account of the Christian Gospel. On the other hand, he launches a stinging assault on the betrayal of this revolution by institutional Christianity. There is little joy here, then, either for the anti-God brigade -- Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens in particular -- nor for many conventional believers. --from publisher description.
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Wide-ranging, witty and sharp, this book provides a robust challenge to the anti-theism of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and the New Atheist movement (not to mention my own 16-year-old self!). It blends its critique of New Atheism with an equally strong criticism of the ways in which Christianity in particular has betrayed it's revolutionary origins.
Two criticisms: Firstly, Eagleton is perhaps a little over-eager to use the mature, sophisticated, theological version of Christianity to excuse the errors of the more literalist varieties; secondly, his dismissal of post-modernism is both seemingly total, and relatively unjustified. Nonetheless, I give the book five stars simply because of how much I enjoyed it! If only all philosophy was this well-written....
