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by Terry Eagleton

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Terry Eagleton's 'Reason, Faith, and Revolution' generated sharply divided responses from readers. Based on lectures delivered at Yale University in 2008, the book presents a Marxist intellectual's critique of the 'New Atheism' movement led by figures like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, while simultaneously challenging fundamentalist religion and liberal humanism. Readers split into two camps: those who found Eagleton's sophisticated defense of faith as existential commitment and his attacks on shallow rationalism intellectually refreshing and necessary, and those who found the book's writing style incomprehensibly dense, internally contradictory, and marred by rhetorical excess that undermined its arguments.

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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.

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  • Title Reason, Faith, & Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate
  • Author Terry Eagleton
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven and London
  • Publication date 2010-03
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780300164534 / 030016453X
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.48 x 0.56 in (21.08 x 13.92 x 1.42 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Theometrics: Academic
    • Theometrics: Secular
  • Category Religion - Commentaries / Reference
  • Library of Congress subjects Apologetics, Humanism
  • Dewey Decimal Code 261.21

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  • Christian Century, 03/23/2010, Page 39

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Terry Eagleton is Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster, England, and Professor of Cultural Theory at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is also Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Notre Dame. Eagleton is also the author of On Evil, published by Yale University Press.

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