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Book Review: Shortt, R. (2019) Outgrowing Dawkins: God for Grown-Ups. London: SPCK.
Graham, Elaine
Graham, Elaine
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2020-05-09
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This book is a direct response to Richard Dawkins’ book Outgrowing God: a beginner’s guide (Bantam Press, 2019) and continues Shortt’s long-standing engagement with New Atheism in such works as God Is No Thing (2015) and Does Religion Do More Harm than Good (2019). The substance of Shortt’s defence of religion is not that it does not have its destructive and dark sides, or even that atheism and religious doubt may not be legitimate intellectual positions. Rather, Shortt takes issue with charges that religious belief is illogical and intellectually specious, that religious commitment is deluded and infantile and religious institutions inherently barbaric and authoritarian.
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Graham, E. (2020). Rupert Shortt, Outgrowing Dawkins: God for Grown-Ups. Theology, 123(3), 228–229.
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SAGE Publications
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Theology
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10.1177/0040571X20910716n
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2044-2696