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

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Alister McGrath The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World. Doubleday, 206 pages, $23.95

In The Daily Telegraph not long ago, A. N. Wilson produced one of those short but seemingly interminable (and morbidly tiresome) opinion columns at which he so excels, this one in praise, putatively, of the present Archbishop of Canterbury. The panegyric, however, was somewhat overwhelmed by the comical dolorousness of the prose. No fewer than sixteen-hundred times (at least, if the impression lingering in my memory is to be believed), Wilson departed from ...

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