Unbelievable? 5 Feb 2011 - Alister McGrath & Stephen Law - Why Won't God Go Away?

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 23 June 2014

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Alister McGrath's new book "Why God won't go away" is a critique of the New Atheist Movement spearheaded by Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris & Dennett. He chats with atheist philosopher Stephen Law about aggressive atheism and its online form. They debate whether religion leads to violence and whether Stephen's "Evil God challenge" is a defeater for belief in a good God. To book a place at the London Book launch on 16 Feb 2011 email publicity@spck.org.uk or phone 0207 5923900 A guaranteed place there and a signed copy of the book for 5 listeners who can answer "What was the name of Alister's 2007 book in response to The God Delusion?" email unbelievable@premier.org.uk For "Why God Won't Go Away" (SPCK) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-God-Wont-Go-Away/dp/0281063877 For Info on Alister McGrath http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mcgrath/ For Stephen Law http://www.cfilondon.org/ or http://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/ For more Christian/non-Christian debate visit http://www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable or get the MP3 podcast http://ondemand.premier.org.uk/unbelievable/AudioFeed.aspx or Via Itunes If you enjoyed this programme you may also enjoy: Unbelievable? 2 Oct 2010 - The Future of New Atheism - Alister McGrath & Caspar Melville. Unbelievable? 13 Nov 2010 - The Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism - Alvin Plantinga vs Stephen Law Join the discussion at the Premier Community http://www.premiercommunity.org.uk/group/unbelievable and via Facebook and Twitter

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1:01.0	as we ask the question, why won't God go away?
1:04.5	Of course the last few years have been marked by something called the new atheism
1:10.9	it's been a rash of books have been published by people like
1:14.4	Richard Dawkins Christopher Hitchin, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, but where is the
1:18.8	movement now some five years on since the God Delusion here in the UK was published.
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