"God Is Dead" and I Don't Feel So Good Myself

Theological Engagements with the New Atheism

Andrew Shutes-David, Christopher J. Keller, David, Keller

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN:
  9781606085318
  9781498211628
• eBook ISBN:
  9781621892281
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Ministry

In this pertinent and engaging volume leading Christian philosophers, theologians, and writers from all over the denominational map explode the black-and-white binaries that characterize both sides of the New Atheism debate. They transcend the self-assured shouting matches of this latest expression of the culture wars by engaging in rigorous, polychromatic Christian reflection that considers the extent to which the atheistic critique-both new and old-might help the church move toward a more mature faith, authentic spirituality, charitable witness, and peaceable practice. With generous openness and ferocious wit, this collection of essays, interviews, memoir, poetry, and visual art-including contributions from leading intellectuals, activists, and artists such as Stanley Hauerwas, Charles Taylor, John Milbank, Stanley Fish, Luci Shaw, Paul Roorda, Merold Westphal, and D. Stephen Long-provides substantive analysis, incisive critique, and a hopeful way forward for Christian dialog with atheist voices.

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Table of contents

• Title
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword: Atheism’s Resurgence and Christian Responses
• Praise Him
• Thomas Merton’s Apologies to an Unbeliever
• Why Every Christian Should “Quite Rightly Pass for an Atheist”
• On What Could Quite Rightly Pass for a Fetish
• Holding On
• Dam(nation) and the American Prophetic Imagination: An Interview with Charles T. Mathewes
• Three Questions on Modern Atheism: An Interview with John Milbank
• Atheism for Lent
• Bog Psalm
• “God Is Dead” and I Don’t Feel So Good Myself
• Reading Philip Pullman in Metro Manila
• The Skeptic’s Gospel and Other Remedies for Truth
• Miltonian Rebukes in an Age of Reason: A Conversation between Stanley Fish and Stanley Hauerwas
• The New Atheism and the Spiritual Landscape of the West: An Interview with Charles Taylor
• Worshipping a Flying Teapot? What To Do When Christianity Looks Ridiculous
• The King of the Mice: An Earnest Fable for My Atheist Friends
• Faith as the Art of the Possible: Invigorating Religious Tradition in an Amnesiac Society
• Mystery and Mayhem: Reading Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita while Dating an Atheist in Seattle
• Why We Live in Community
• Spring Prayer
• Contributors
• Bibliography