Reason, Faith, and Revolution

EAGLETON,T

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Author
EAGLETON,T
Publish Date
03/01/2010
Book Type
paperback
Publisher Name
YALE
Subtitle
Reflections on the God Debate
Number of Pages
208
Edition
First Edition
ISBN-10
030016453X
ISBN-13
9780300164534
SKU
9780300164534

Description

One of our most influential literary critics challenges those who too easily dismiss religion and faith

Terry Eagleton’s witty and polemical Reason, Faith, and Revolution is bound to cause a stir among scientists, theologians, people of faith and people of no faith, as well as general readers eager to understand the God Debate. 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. Instead, Eagleton offers his own vibrant account of religion and politics in a book that ranges from the Holy Spirit to the recent history of the Middle East, from Thomas Aquinas to the Twin Towers.