There Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind

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I grew to love Antony Flew when he was an atheist. He always managed to make you think and, as a Christian, I respected his demeanor that is so la... (show more)

I grew to love Antony Flew when he was an atheist. He always managed to make you think and, as a Christian, I respected his demeanor that is so lacking in the dialog between atheists and Christians--especially among the modern authors. This book was a must read for me and I appreciated the content. While I am not in agreement with all his conclusions or arguments, he takes a more deistic view of life and I a reformed Christian, I believe that whatever your conclusions are in this vital issue, Flew must be addressed.

I am thankful for this addition to the Flew stack of books and appreciate this man's work, though I disagree. (show less)

 

 

by Derick Dickens

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It's very difficult to recognize the author of this book as the same Flew who wrote "The Presumption of Atheism." Flew anticipates this reaction an... (show more)

It's very difficult to recognize the author of this book as the same Flew who wrote "The Presumption of Atheism." Flew anticipates this reaction and tries to explain how recent science and theological scholarship caused him to switch camps. The problem is that there is really nothing "new" in the science, and nothing turns on the scholarship in question. (Was there a historical Jesus? Whether Jesus existed or not makes little difference if you consider the assertion of God arbitrary in the first place.) What's really going on here is that the Intelligent Design movement has refined their arguments just enough to tickle the fancy of an aging philosopher who (by his own account) has perhaps been a closet mystic all along. Flew (and his co-writers) have decided (how?) that the fact that nature operates according to laws, that conscious beings emerged from non-living matter, and that existence exists, can ONLY be explained by the existence of God. Case closed, game over, thanks very much for playing. I have to wonder what the younger Flew would say about this book. All I can say is that Flew et al have a long way to go before they'd convince me that their assertions are anything other than arbitrary. (show less)

 

 

by Chuck Butler

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  Aside from the philosophical language which takes a while to slog through, it is an excellent read. N.T. Wright's article at the end is great!

   

  by Andrew Phillips on Aug 15, 2008 at 04:10AM

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  An important book laying out the reasons for why Antony Flew, a former philosophical atheist, "changed his mind" to a belief in God. Specifically, deism. There are both philosophical arguments in the book as well as stories about Flew and his personal journey. I think that's good because people's beliefs about the world, their worldview, encompasses more than just philosophical arguments and cognition; but also personal stories and journeys through life. I thought the best part of t... (show more)

  An important book laying out the reasons for why Antony Flew, a former philosophical atheist, "changed his mind" to a belief in God. Specifically, deism. There are both philosophical arguments in the book as well as stories about Flew and his personal journey. I think that's good because people's beliefs about the world, their worldview, encompasses more than just philosophical arguments and cognition; but also personal stories and journeys through life. I thought the best part of the book was the two appendices by Roy Abraham Varghese discussing the straw man attacks on christianity from the New Atheism; and then N.T. Wright discussing the plausibility of the resurrection of Jesus. As usual, Wright presented a masterful argument for the resurrection; one that even Flew himself said was the best presentation of this argument. Hopefully Flew will come to belief in the fact of the resurrection, that's more important than the book. (show less)

   

  by Daniel Seatvet on Oct 12, 2009 at 02:07AM

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