Sunday, October 16, 2011

Why God Won't Go Away by Alister McGrath

            To begin with, Why God Won’t Go Away is not a book determined to engage with you and convince you that God is real.  This book is not meant to persuade you to find some sort of “religion.”  While McGrath is a noted theologian of our day, this book has one purpose only, which is to engage what has come to be known as the “new atheism” by contributing the rebuttal to the discourse of authors such as Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris.  McGrath presents the positions of these three men and then counters them by showing the inherent flaws of their position.  Throughout the book, McGrath goes a step further by explaining where they go wrong and then he offers a protheological view that counters yet seems fully rationale.  In the end we see that GOD does not go away because GOD is constant; the views of those who do not believe in GOD are not.
            This book is a little different compared to what I usually read so I didn’t quite know what to expect in reading it.  The book engaged me in how I’ve come to the conclusions that I have in regards to faith and the evidence needed to have it.  I felt this book was even-handed, well-researched, and that the evidence was presented in a way that rebutted the “new atheism” without stepping into the realm of triviality and name calling.  I enjoyed Why God Won't Go Away and would recommend it to and would recommend it to anyone who wants to broaden their knowledge on the conversation between atheists and theists.


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