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Christianity Is Dying Out
1 Robert Wuthnow, Religion and Science Debate: Why Does It Continue? ed. Harold Attridge (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009), pp. 155-77.
2 “Sub-Saharan Africa Is World’s ‘Most Religious’ Area,” Christian Century, May 18, 2010, p. 19.
3 David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons, unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007), p. 28.
4 “Sub-Saharan Africa,” Christian Century, p. 9.
5 Kinnaman and Lyons, unChristian, p. 223.
6 Cathy Lynn Grossman, “Most religious groups in USA have lost ground, survey finds,” USA Today, published March 9, 2009, updated March 13, 2009, www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-03-09-american-religion-ARIS_N.htm.
7 “U.S. Religious Landscape Report II,” event transcript, published June 23, 2008, www.pewforum.org/US-Religious-Landscape-Survey-Report-II.aspx.
8 Eric Gorski, “America: A Nation of Religious Drifters,” Associated Press, May 2, 2009, reporting on the Pew Foundation’s 2009 report “Faith in Flux: Changes in Religious Affiliation in the U.S.”
9 Adelle M. Banks, “God big in South, not so much in New England and Pacific Northwest: New Gallup results,” Christian Century, March 10, 2009, pp. 14-15.
10Andrew Greeley, Religion in Europe at the End of the Second Millennium: A Sociological Profile (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2003).
11Dale Gavlak, “ ‘Religicide’ in Iraq,” Christianity Today, February 2011, pp. 13-16. Collin Hansen, “The Son and the Crescent,” Christianity Today, February, 2011, pp. 19-23, addresses the differences between Muslim and Christian views of Jesus.
12Kenda Creasy Dean, “Almost-Christian Formation of Teens: Faith, Nice and Easy,” Christian Century, August 10, 2010, pp. 22-27.
13Angelo Di Bernardino, ed., Encyclopedia of the Early Church (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), p. 495.
14David Bentley Hart, Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009), p. 236.
15As for recent views by scientists, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, The Grand Design (New York: Bantam, 2010), argue against the existence of God on the basis of the currently fashionable M-Theory (a development of string theory in physics), but the opposite is argued by Hugh Ross, Beyond the Cosmos: What Recent Discoveries in Astrophysics Reveal About the Glory and Love of God, 3rd ed. (Orlando: Signalman, 2010).
16Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian (Cambridge, MA: Basic Books, 2001), p. 55.
17Phillip E. Johnson and John Mark Reynolds, Against All Gods: What’s Right and Wrong About the New Atheism (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2010), p. 66.
18Ian S. Markham, Against Atheism: Why Dawkins, Hitchens, and Harris Are Fundamentally Wrong (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), pp. 7, 32.
19See not only the popular books of the “new atheists”—Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris—but also the tone of the American Humanist Society (for example, the May/June 2009 issue of The Humanist).
20Benjamin Wiker, The Catholic Church and Science (Charlotte, NC: Tan Books, 2011).
21Carlos Eire, Very Brief History of Eternity (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010), p. 38.
22John C. Lennox, God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? (Oxford: Lion, 2007), pp. 16-17.
23Jeffrey Burton Russell, Paradise Mislaid: How We Lost Heaven and How We Can Regain It (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 111-14.
24Philip Jenkins, “The Crypto-Christians,” Christian Century, July 14, 2009, p. 45.
25See Markham, Against Atheism, pp. 54, 145, and Francis S. Collins, Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (New York: Free Press, 2006), p. 4.
26Thomas G. Long, “Expect a Whirlwind,” Christian Century, February 22,...