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Coming to Faith Through Dawkins: 12 Essays on the Pathway from New Atheism to Christianity Kindle Edition

by Alister McGrath (Author), Denis Alexander (Author, Contributor) Format: Kindle Edition
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Richard Dawkins = Christian evangelist?

Editors Denis Alexander and Alister McGrath gather other intelligent minds from around the world to share their startling commonality: Richard Dawkins and his fellow New Atheists were instrumental in their conversions to Christianity.

Despite a wide range of backgrounds and cultures, all are united in the fact that they were first enthusiasts for the claims and writings of the New Atheists. But each became disillusioned by the arguments and conclusions of Dawkins, causing them to look deeper and with more objectivity at religious faith. The fallacies of Christianity Dawkins warns of simply don't exist.

Spending time in this fascinating and powerful book is like being invited to the most interesting dinner party you've ever attended. Listen as twelve men and women from five different countries across a variety of professions--philosophers, artists, historians, engineers, scientists, and more--explain their journeys from atheism to faith. In the end, you may come away having reached the same conclusion: authentic Christian faith is in fact more intellectually convincing and rational than New Atheism.

"Lucid as well as exhilarating and wide-ranging."
--Rupert Shortt, Von Hügel Institute, University of Cambridge, and author of God Is No Thing

"Many people, including nonbelievers like me, have found Dawkins's strident atheism upsetting to the point of offensive. I would never have thought that--as Coming to Faith Through Dawkins shows in wonderful detail--for some, Dawkins's rantings were the spur to Christian faith."
--Michael Ruse, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, University of Guelph, Ontario

"This is a novel book: real-life stories of people who have actually come to faith, not in spite of but through Richard Dawkins. It must be his own worst nightmare!"
--William Lane Craig, Houston Christian University
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New Atheist polemic has backfired in surprising ways. Far from undermining informed Christian belief, Richard Dawkins and his allies have in fact inspired fresh forms of apologetics. A stream of first-class publications has shown belief in God to be far more coherent than even many believers realise. Lucid as well as exhilarating and wide-ranging, Coming to Faith Through Dawkins stands in this line. Highly recommended. -- Rupert Shortt, author of God Is No Thing: Coherent Christianity Published On: 2023-07-03

If Richard Dawkins didn't exist, then Christians should have invented him. As this fascinating compilation of personal stories shows, Dawkins' strong opposition to Christianity can spur people on to critically examine their deepest beliefs and even to radically change them. Although the writers come to completely different conclusions on the Christian faith from Dawkins, they all agree with him that what you believe really matters, and that robust no-holds barred intellectual inquiry is the best way to make progress in our thinking. We should be thankful to Richard Dawkins for inspiring this set of interesting thinkers. -- Ard Louis, Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford Published On: 2023-07-03

This is a truly fascinating book. Many people, including non-believers like me, have found Dawkins’ strident atheism upsetting to the point of offensive. I would never have thought that, as Coming to Faith through Dawkins shows in wonderful detail, that for some Dawkins’ rantings were the spur to Christian faith. One can be forgiven for feeling a strong element of Schadenfreude. -- Michael Ruse, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, University of Guelph, Ontario Canada Published On: 2023-07-03

Difficult to put down once started, these essays wrestle with the inadequacies of scientism, growing up with communism, life in a world of rampant secularism, and shallow thinking. They identify illogicality, arrogance and pseudo-certainty in new atheist thinking not least in the God Delusion. . . . Here is a rich diversity that comes from the humanities, science, drama and business to website development, writing and art; from countries both north and south of the equator; they speak of today’s followers of Jesus. -- Sir Brian Heap, President, European Academies Science Advisory Council, Leopoldina Academy Published On: 2023-07-03

These essays recount the intellectual journeys of people who were initially attracted to what was called the ‘New Atheism’ of authors like Richard Dawkins, but which today might more descriptively be called ‘Antitheism’. A common thread through each of the essays is a gradual realization that, beyond the antitheists' facile rhetoric, their arguments are shallow and often inconsistent, relying on implausible scientism, and knocking down easy straw-man misrepresentations of theism, not the long intellectual tradition of classic Christianity. Even more, though, than the thoughtful retelling of intellectual journeys, my heart was greatly touched and warmed by the personal and deeply human stories in which they are embedded: showing how the Gospel is good news for life as well as mind. -- Ian Hutchinson, author of the book Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles? Published On: 2023-07-03

This is a novel book: real-life stories of people who have actually come to faith, not in spite of, but through Richard Dawkins. It must be his own worst nightmare! -- William Lane Craig, Houston Christian University Published On: 2023-07-03

An unexpected and wonderful book that I highly recommend. It provides the "intellectual conversion stories" of 12 people of different walks in life, from scientists to artists. Each of them was at some point in their life driven to atheism, or reassured in it, as they were impressed by the "New Atheism" of Dawkins, Hitchens, and similar strong atheist proponents. Yet, each of them converted to Christianity at a later stage of life, as they were getting disappointed by the intellectual persuasiveness of the new atheism, while conversely the appeal of the gospel of Jesus was compelling to them. In reading these life stories, I was struck by the honesty and personal and intellectual integrity of these authors, who, each in their own right, did not stick with an apathetic attitude, but pursued a search for truth with a willingness to follow the evidence wherever it would lead, a road that--much to their own surprise--led them from atheism to Christian faith. These moving personal stories signal the general disillusionment about the 'new atheism’ which appears to have faded, and at the same time provide a strong testimony for the intellectual and life-changing power of the gospel of Jesus Christ anno 2023. -- Dr Cees Dekker, Distinguished University Professor at TU Delft, The Netherlands Published On: 2023-07-03

The "New Atheist" case against religion has led some to abandon faith, but others, as these spiritual autobiographies illustrate, to discover or recover faith--a faith that respects reason and evidence and that lies between dogmatic fundamentalism and purposeless scientism. Is there a science-respecting faith alternative that makes sense of the universe, gives meaning to life, mandates morality, and offers supportive connections and hope in the face of adversity and death? Read this book and decide. -- David G. Myers, Hope College, and author, A Friendly Letter to Skeptics and Atheists Published On: 2023-07-03

Coming to Faith through Dawkins contains twelve accounts of people forced to acknowledge that reality is much larger than materialism lets on. This group of hard-headed scholars was committed to the New Atheist agenda. They tell of its woeful inadequacies when they became disconcerted by the larger spiritual reality. They tell of the pivotal role of Jesus Christ in their awakening. I commend this book to my fellow academics and technocrats as a window beyond the present reductionism that puts us in danger of neglecting that much larger reality, and I encourage my students to read about these scholars who learned to look beyond their preconceptions and be inspired to embrace the Christ who delivers life to the full. -- Bill Peirson, Adjunct Professor and Master at New College, University of New South Wales Published On: 2023-07-03 --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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Denis Alexander was chair of the Molecular Immunology Programme at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge. From 2006 until 2012, he was the founding director of the Faraday Institure for Science and Relgiion at St. Edmund's College, Cambridge, where is a fellow. Dr. Alexander was editor of the journal Science and Christian Belief from 1993 to 2012.

Alister McGrath is a former atheist who studied natural sciences at Oxford before switching to theology. He served as the Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at Oxford University from 2014 to 2022. McGrath is the author of the international bestseller The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine.

Dr. Sy Garte is a biochemist and has been a professor at New York University, University of Pittsburgh, and Rutgers University. He has authored over two hundred scientific publications and four previous books, and has served as division director at the National Institutes of Health. Sy is also the editor in chief of God and Nature magazine and vice president of the Washington, DC, chapter of the American Scientific Affiliation. He is a lay leader in the United Methodist Church. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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    Dr. Sy Garte is a biochemist and has been a professor at New York University, University of Pittsburgh, and Rutgers University. He has authored over two hundred scientific publications and four previous books, and has served as division director at the National Institutes of Health and Vice President for Research (acting) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He served on the Board of Advisors for the John Templeton Foundation.

    Sy is the Editor-in-Chief of "God and Nature" magazine and vice president of the Washington, DC, chapter of the American Scientific Affiliation (ASA). He is a Fellow of the ASA and a lay leader and certified Lay Servant in the United Methodist Church.

    Although retired from active employment, Sy keeps busy writing and evangelizing online and in the church. He also contributes to science and faith journals such as Perspectives in Science and Christian Faith, and keeps a blog "The Book of Works". His book "The Works of His Hands: A Scientist's Journey from Atheism to Faith" (Kregel Publications) is his first book on science and Christian faith, but probably not his last.

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    Alister McGrath is a scholar and writer who is presently Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at Oxford University. After initial work in the natural sciences, McGrath moved into the field of Christian theology. He is best known for his definitive and widely used textbooks on Christian theology and his authoritative biography of C. S. Lewis. As a former atheist, McGrath is fascinated by the interaction of faith, science, and atheism, and writes regularly on these themes.

    McGrath was born in Belfast in 1953, and holds both Irish and British citizenship. He lives in the Cotswolds near Oxford.

    For McGrath's website, including details of his weekly Youtube postings and videos helping you use his theology textbooks, go to alistermcgrath.net

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5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring!
Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2024
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A very inspiring collection of testimonies. Thanks to the authors & publishers!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book
Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2023
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Great arguments against Dawkins and for Christianity
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5.0 out of 5 stars New Atheism Is Now OLD!
Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2023
New Atheism is empty. This book offers up as evidence the stories of 12 intellectuals who point to New Atheism as the actual instrument that led them to Christianity. People need purpose, meaning, and identity. Atheism offers none of that! Atheism is now old, once again!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Personal stories of diverse people whose path to Jesus traveled through atheism
Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2023
I really appreciate biographies. I love to see into people’s lives and hear their own stories. This book is a collection of the accounts of 12 people who share their faith pilgrimages. They are a rather diverse group of individuals but their common trait is that their testimony of following Jesus was significantly influenced by the writings of Richard Dawkins and the other Four Horsemen of New Atheism. I found the book to be thoughtful and was interested in seeing what was (or wasn’t) persuasive to each person in influencing their faith and philosophy. I resonated with some authors more than others and what was compelling to some would not have been compelling to me. Each essay came across as authentic and I highly recommend this book.

The book begins with a preface and introduction by the editors describing what prompted this book, a little of the history of New Atheism, and the growing disillusionment and decline of New Atheism which set the stage for the authors and their faith journeys. The body of the book is 12 chapters, each written by a different author who included the influence of New Atheism on their path to Christianity. Finally, the book concludes with end notes and a section about the editors and authors.

Chapter 1: A New Christian Meets New Atheism by Sy Garte
Garte is a scientist and he says after coming to faith in Jesus Christ, “I did not know any other scientists who were Christians. I wondered if there were any, or if I was some strange, anomalous beast who would eventually go insane from all the contradictions and cognitive dissonance.” p20. Garte grew up in an atheist, Marxist home that valued science, history, and humanism. His study of these, particularly science, was a large part of his spiritual growth, and reading books by New Atheists strengthened his faith since he found their arguments to be poor and often not accurate.

Chapter 2: Wrestling with Life’s Biggest Questions by Sarah Irving-Stonebraker
An atheist historian pursued and achieved her lifelong dream of gaining a PhD and fellowship at Cambridge and Oxford. In her studies, she was confronted with historic information on Christians who studied science as well as a failure by atheists to answer well some of life’s biggest questions. She says, “I spent a lot of time in reflection. I came to the conclusion that atheism could not provide adequate answers to the big questions; it could not make sense of what I saw as a historian and what I experienced of the human predicament of living in a world that does not satisfy our deepest longings.” p58. “I decided that the Bible’s explanations of who God is, who we are, and what life is about were true. I wanted to follow the God who made me, loves me, and died for me.” p58.

Chapter 3: From Dawkins to Christ via William Lane Craig by Peter Byrom
Byrom was a rebellious and carnal university student when one atheist friend became a Christian and another friend gave up his faith to become an atheist. He decided to investigate atheism and the claims of prominent New Atheists including Dawkins. During his research, he encountered William Lane Craig and found his logical syllogisms more sound than the claims of Dawkins and the other atheists. “Dawkins put me on the road to Christian faith (which is not belief without evidence but placing your trust in what the evidence shows you). He shook me out of my apathy and insisted that I follow the evidence where it led. The only twist was, the evidence took me where he (and I, initially) didn’t want it to go, and it transpired that his atheism was not as airtight as he’d claimed.” p85.

Chapter 4: A Winding Path Through New Atheism to Faith by Anikó Albert
Albert was raised in an agnostic family in a Soviet-controlled regime. Her education included “secular exposure to the cultural marks of Christianity.” p89. In college, she was curious about religion and moved to Jamaica after graduation where she taught at a Catholic-run school and even attended Mass occasionally. Later, she moved back to Hungary and then to the US, and, fueled by negative things she saw connected with religion and 9/11, her doubts about Christianity grew. She joined online discussion groups around atheism and read the works of the Four Horsemen. But the more she interacted, the more she saw hypocrisy, illogical arguments, claims that were simply wrong, and data that was cherry-picked or inaccurate. She began to engage with some Christians and attend a Methodist church where she could ask questions and her faith began to grow. “Faith and reason, far from the enemies the New Atheists believe them to be, held hands and led me to the communion table one Sunday.” p103.

Chapter 5: Hearing God Through Enchantment with Nature by Andrew G. Gosler
Studying the cooperation of the greater honeyguide birds and humans in finding bees’ nests for honey and beeswax, Gosler concluded that the presentation of evolution by New Atheists like Dawkins is flawed. Observations and immersion in nature nurtured his faith. He concluded “that ever life hangs by a thread, and that, therefore, all life is sacred and founded not on selfishness but on mutual interdependence which is truth; the spirit of love and peace.” p122.

Chapter 6: An Afrikaner’s Faith Pilgrimage by Johan Erasmus
“(Perhaps one of the strongest arguments against Christianity looks something like this: if God is good, why are Christian movies so bad?)” p125. I really resonated with the way Erasmus sees Christianity so holistically and his reason for belief isn’t reduced to a couple of apologetic arguments. “To think an eight-minute video clip is going to “destroy” a complex worldview is silly. … Perhaps the reason I am so annoyed when Christians fall into this polemic vortex is because I know the frustration I feel when atheists make the same move.” p133. I think this was my favorite chapter.

Chapter 7: Coming to Faith via The God Delusion by Nick Berryman
“For a significant part of my life, I had dismissed religion as incompatible with an intellectual mind. For one, science and religion were in opposition, and I had chosen the side of science.” p143. But once the author began to assess Christianity intellectually, he found it robust and persuasive, especially Jesus himself. The answers Dawkins offered in “The God Delusion” were insufficient by comparison.

Chapter 8: The God Delusion and Probability by Louise Mabille
Mabille grew up thinking “Religious belief was for the slightly backward, and theism was embraced by the bright and inquisitive. Then came The God Delusion.” p160-161. “What bothered me most about The God Delusion, and what contributed most to my eventual turn to Christianity, was that it made enormous claims upon which it then failed to deliver.” p161. Mabille points to statistics and probability claims which ultimately were more convincing in favor of a designer, a mind, behind creation.

Chapter 9: My Egyptian Journey to Faith by Rafik Samuel
Samuel’s father was a Christian preacher and apologist, and a professional psychiatrist. When he was 13 he discovered the Four Horseman of New Atheism and became an apologist for Atheism, arguing with youth leaders at church and convincing his friends too. While watching a debate between Christopher Hitchens and William Lane Craig, he was embarrassed by how poorly his hero, Hitchens, debated, not even engaging with Craig’s actual logical arguments. This was a turning point after which Samuel looked into many Christian intellectuals and found good reasons for Christianity. Most importantly, along the way he fell in love with Jesus.

Chapter 10: From Lukewarm Theism to Committed Faith by Judith R. Babarsky
“Certainly, if Dawkins expected to mount a credible attack on religious, specifically Christian belief, it would not be unreasonable to expect that he would have studied his opponent extensively enough to present the arguments fairly and objectively. The fact that he clearly failed to do so left me with the firm conviction that his was not a credible witness and certainly not scientific.” p195. “Mine was more of an intellectual conversion than anything else. And I’ve often said that I read my way into the faith. It was provoked by a process of reasoning – it most certainly was not an emotional conversion (although I would have welcomed that).” p202.

Chapter 11: From Religion to Agnosticism to Faith in Christ via Dawkins by Waldo Swart
Swart was an Afrikaner Christian from South Africa who felt like the only one of his peers who had questions and doubts about Christianity and the Bible. When his questions were met with shallow, pat answers at church, he looked elsewhere and found better answers in Dawkins and other atheists. He embraced atheism and continued to learn from them until he began having conversations with a friend who was studying theology. To arm himself to argue for atheism better, he decided to study Christianity and other religions. He found compelling reasons for faith and began to notice shortcomings in atheist arguments. “Ironically, it was not a Christian’s belief that convinced me in the end but rather an agnostic’s unrelenting unbelief.” p219.

Chapter 12: Seeking the Truth via New Atheism and Psychedelic Drugs by Ashley Lande
Lande embraced atheism in her rebellious youth and tried various drugs, yoga, New Age practices, meditation, a strict raw vegan diet, and more in order to find truth and satisfaction but instead found despair. When her husband decided to try church, she went too, and there she encountered Jesus. Previously, she had anticipated Hitchen’s book but now she found his ideas unpersuasive and futile. “I only wanted Jesus. I needed Jesus. In a lightning-rod revelation that was pure grace, I finally saw the truth; nothing and no one else would ever do.” p277. “But I could finally sing it with earnestness, holding nothing back; it is well with my soul.”

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It could have been snarky or belittling toward Dawkins and the atheists whose views these authors rejected but instead was reflective and came across as respectful and authentic. In my own journey, I have asked some of the same questions and sought answers in some of the same places as a few of these authors and found their stories inspiring. I absolutely recommend this book and hope other readers will be encouraged by it too.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Dishonest Framing
Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2023
From the description, you’d be forgiven for thinking that all the book’s contributors were atheists when the new atheist movement took off and that the writings of the new atheists caused them to become Christians. If this was your impression, you’d be disappointed when you noticed that the first chapter was written by Sy Garte, who is open and honest about the fact that he already converted by the time he encountered the new atheism. I haven’t read far enough to see whether this is true for other authors as well, but we’re zero for one.

I have no great love for the religious writings of Richard Dawkins or the other new atheists, but the ideal response is hardly dishonest apologetics.
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D.McGill
5.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't put it down...
Reviewed in Canada on November 23, 2023
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I loved this book and couldn't put it down after starting it! The last account/chapter written by Ashley Lande is just a beautiful thing to read but all of the contributors have excellent stories of their path to faith, especially Sy Garte. You won't be sorry you bought this, worth every penny.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 2, 2023
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This book is very timely. In recent years there has been a revision of thinking about the early 21st Century New Atheist movement, led principally by Richard Dawkins in which a more fundamentalist account of atheism was promoted through popular writing. This includes the work of what became known as the Four Horsemen, namely Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist, Christopher Hitchens, author and journalist, and Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett, both philosophers and neuroscientists. In the aftermath of 9/11, they gradually became more strident in presenting not just atheistic beliefs but suggesting religion and belief in a God is a danger to the world.

Despite their academic or scholarly training, it quickly became apparent that their work was primarily polemical and carefully crafted under the veneer of a respectable scientific materialism. Uncomfortable truths about the world were ignored, including their obsession with casting religion as causing the world’s problems leading them to ignore the great scandals of the 20th century, inflicted by prominent non-religious leaders such as Hitler and Stalin. Nevertheless, by popularising their viewpoint through books and seminars, they proved highly influential in Western culture. This includes the apotheosis of the movement, Dawkins’ classic book ‘The God Delusion’ in which he assembled an array of arguments against there being a creator or designer God.

Problems emerged with the Four Horsemen approach, not least that some more thoughtful philosophers and scientists started to critique their work, often less stridently, including attacking many of the premises they used. Over the years they were able to pick holes in the overall framework, to the extent that the world seems to have eventually moved on beyond Dawkins, whose cultural influence is waning rapidly.

The book reflects this process, expressed in the lives of twelve individuals who started off as atheists and were jolted into thinking differently when they started to read Dawkins’ work. Together they outline in a gentle fashion how they plainly could see through some of his basic arguments concerning his form of atheism and deterministic or materialistic biological concepts of reality. This caused them to examine other world views which in turn led them on a pathway to religious understanding.

The strength of this book is that the 12 individuals come at this from different directions and with diverse life experiences, and so you get a multidimensional account of their pathways, each in their own way nuanced and engaging. Reading these accounts, you gain the impression that these humble individuals always had a larger mental space than inhabited by the New Atheists.

In pulling together these accounts, two professors, Denis Alexander from Cambridge University, and Alister McGrath from Oxford University, have hit upon a readable way of documenting the decline of the New Atheistic movement, which also makes this book of historical importance in the history of 21st century thought.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 10, 2023
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Anyone who has found Dawkins in any way convincing will find this book very helpful. The variety in these essays is great.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book and very well worth buying
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 13, 2023
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A magnificent book - worth reading for Alister McGrath's introduction alone, but also for the excellent contributions by those who became Christians through the sheer internal folly of the New Atheism. And as a humanities graduate I was relieved that you do not have to have a science degree to read and enjoy this book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and encouraging!
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Very good to know that people are seeing the error 'preached' by Dawkins!
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