Alister E. Mcgrath

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Dawkins' God (eBook, ePUB)

From The Selfish Gene to The God Delusion

Beschreibung

A fully updated new edition of a critically acclaimed examination of the theories and writings of Richard Dawkins by a world-renowned expert on the relation of science and religion

• Includes in-depth analysis of Dawkins' landmark treatise The God Delusion (2006), as well as coverage of his later popular works The Magic of Reality (2011) and The Greatest Show on Earth (2011),and a new chapter on Dawkins as a popularizer of science
• Tackles Dawkins' hostile and controversial views on religion, and examine the religious implications of his scientific ideas including a comprehensive investigation of the 'selfish gene'
• Written in an accessible and engaging style that will appeal to anyone interested in better understanding the interplay between science and religion

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Autor

ALISTER E. MCGRATH is Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford. One of the world's leading theologians, he has written numerous critically acclaimed books, including The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis (Wiley, 2013), Why God Won't Go Away: Engaging the New Atheism (2011), and Darwinism and the Divine: Evolutionary Thought and Natural Theology (Wiley, 2011). He is also the author of some of the most widely used theology textbooks, including the bestselling Christian Theology: An Introduction, now in its fifth edition (Wiley, 2010).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118964798
• Artikelnr.: 41825656

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Priase for the Previous Edition

"Wielding evolutionary arguments and carefully chosen metaphorslike sharp swords, Richard Dawkins has emerged over three decadesas this generation's most aggressive promoter of atheism. Inhis view, science, and science alone, provides the only rock worthstanding on. In this remarkable book, Alister McGrath challengesDawkins on the very ground he holds most sacred - rationalargument - and McGrath disarms the master. It becomes readilyapparent that Dawkins has aimed his attack at a naive version offaith that most serious believers would not recognize. Afterreading this carefully constructed and eloquently written book,Dawkins' choice of atheism emerges as the most irrational ofthe available choices

about God's existence." FrancisCollins, Director of the Human Genome Project

"In this tour-de-force Alister McGrathapproaches the edifice of self-confident, breezy atheism soeffectively promoted by Richard Dawkins, and by deft dissection andargument reveals the shallowness, special-pleading andinconsistencies of his world-picture. Here is a book whichhelps to rejoin the magnificence of science to the magnificence ofGod's good Creation." Simon Conway Morris, Professorof Evolutionary Palaeobiology, Cambridge University

"Here Alister McGrath announces what every DarwinianFundamentalist needs to hear: that science is and always has been acultural practice that is provisional, fallible, and sociallyshaped - an enterprise to be cultivated and fostered, buthardly worshipped or idolised. A devastating critique."David N. Livingstone, Professor of Geography and IntellectualHistory, Queen's University, Belfast