Delusions and Dark Materials: New Atheism as Naïve Atheism and its Challenge to Theological Education

This paper engages with New Atheism as reflected in the recent popular academic work of Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Christopher Hitchens and the adolescent fiction of Philip Pullman. It asserts that New Atheism represents a challenge to theology not because of its philosophical c...

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Main Author: DeLashmutt, Michael W. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2009]
In: The expository times
Year: 2009, Volume: 120, Issue: 12, Pages: 586-593
Further subjects:B Theological Education
B Charles Taylor
B Philip Pullman
B Atheism
B Religious Education
B PULLMAN, Philip, 1946-
B Sam Harris
B Atheist Bus Campaign
B Atheists
B Daniel Dennett
B HARRIS, Sam, 1967-
B Richard Dawkins
B HITCHENS, Christopher, 1949-2011
B Dawkins, Richard, 1941-
B Popular Culture
B DENNETT, Daniel Clement, 1942-
B Christopher Hitchens
B New Atheism
B Secularism
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