Believe it.(The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World)(Book Review)

From: National Review | Date: September 13, 2004| Author: Allen, Charlotte | Copyright information

The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World, by Alister McGrath (Doubleday, 306 pp., $23.95)

NOT long ago--just 34 years ago, to be exact--"many had come to the view that religion was on its way out," Oxford University theologian Alister McGrath writes in his highly readable new book. In 1970, it seemed that social scientists' predictions were coming true: that first the industrialized West and then the fast-industrializing remainder of th...

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