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Book Review: God is Great, God is Good

Pages: 258
Pub­lisher: Inter­var­sity Press
Year: 2009
Edi­tors: William Lane Craig | Chad Meister

A cou­ple of weeks ago I reviewed Athe­ism Remix, describ­ing it as an excel­lent intro­duc­tion to the move­ment known as the New Athe­ism, but not­ing that it did not deal with the argu­ments pre­sented by new athe­ists. This week I’ll be review­ing God is Great, God is Good (gra­ciously sent to me by the nice peo­ple over at Inter­var­sity Press), a recent effort by a col­lec­tion of accom­plished Chris­t­ian the­olo­gians, philoso­phers and sci­en­tists — such as William Lane Craig, J.P. More­land, Michael Behe and Alis­ter McGrath, among oth­ers — whose pur­pose for the book is to “answer chal­lenges advanced by the New Athe­ists and oth­ers rais­ing objec­tions to believe in God and the Chris­t­ian faith“¹.  At this, the book shines. Where Athe­ism Remix is an excel­lent intro­duc­tion to the New Athe­ism, God is … (Read more)