A New Theist Response to the New Atheists (Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies)

by KevinVallier (Editor), JoshuaRasmussen (Editor), Joshua Rasmussen (Editor), Kevin Vallier (Editor)

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2019
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In recent debates concerning the existence, or non-existence, of God, the New Atheists have become an increasingly prominent voice. In response to this intellectual movement, this volume articulates for the first time a New Theist response that has at its core a desire to engage in productive and depolarizing dialogue.

To ensure this book is of interest to atheists and theists alike, a team of experts in the field of philosophy of religion offer an expert assessment of the toughest New Atheist arguments. The chapters deal with some of the most pertinent questions about God, including politics and morality, and each essay shows how a reflective theist might deal with points raised by the New Atheists.

This volume is a serious scholarly engagement with the questions asked by New Atheism. As such, it will be if significant interest to scholars of the Philosophy of Religion and Theology, as well as those studying Religious Studies more generally.

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In recent debates concerning the existence, or non-existence, of God, the New Atheists have become an increasingly prominent voice. In response to this intellectual movement, this volume articulates for the first time a New Theist response that has at its core a desire to engage in productive and depolarizing dialogue.

To ensure this book is of interest to atheists and theists alike, a team of experts in the field of philosophy of religion offer an expert assessment of the toughest New Atheist arguments. The chapters deal with some of the most pertinent questions about God, including politics and morality, and each essay shows how a reflective theist might deal with points raised by the New Atheists.

This volume is a serious scholarly engagement with the questions asked by New Atheism. As such, it will be if significant interest to scholars of the Philosophy of Religion and Theology, as well as those studying Religious Studies more generally.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 228
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 05 Dec 2019
ISBN 10: 0815352476
ISBN 13: 9780815352471

Author Bio

Joshua Rasmussen is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Azusa Pacific University, USA. He works primarily on topics in metaphysics, with a focus on basic categories of reality and minds. He is author of Defending the Correspondence Theory of Truth (2014) and co-author of Necessary Existence (with Pruss; 2017). He has published more than 20 articles on these and related topics, and has participated in several grant-funded projects, including as principle investigator for a project on the role of randomness in creativity (2013-2015). Kevin Vallier is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University, USA. His interests lie primarily in political philosophy, ethics, philosophy, politics, and economics (PPE), and the philosophy of religion. He is the author of Liberal Politics and Public Faith: Beyond Separation (2014) and Must Politics Be War? In Defense of Public Reason Liberalism, forthcoming in 2018.