A Review of Coming to Faith Through Dawkins: 12 Essays on the Pathway from New Atheism to Christianity
If in the early 2000s someone had said that New Atheism would be digging its own grave by the 2020s, I’m not sure anyone would have believed it. New Atheism was an edgier and bolder form of unbelief promoted by such energetic and quick-witted figures as Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, and Richard Dawkins (dubbed the Four Horsemen of the movement), who published bestselling critiques of religion and packed out auditoriums with people eager to hear their takedowns of Christianity. But now, in 2024, Hitchens and Dennett are deceased; Sam Harris seems more interested in meditation and “spirituality without religion”;1 and Richard Dawkins says he is a “cultural...
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