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Four For Good Measure

This Rock Volume 20, Number 3   March 2009     Reasons for Hope By Cherie Peacock   Letters   The Courage to Do What Herod Didn’t Do: He Left the Gay Lifestyle for the Church By Fr. Vincent Serpa, O.P.   Who’s Deluded? An Atheist Just Doesn’t Get Aquinas By Christopher Kaczor   Why God Can’t Change His Mind   Aquinas Proves Atheists Are Closer to God than They Think By Mark Brumley   Dawkins’ Debunkers: A Reading List By Andrew M. Seddon   Four for Good Measure   The Cost of Discipleship: Catholicism in China By Anthony E. Clark   Damascus Road The Splendor of Truth Brings an Episcopalian Minister and His Flock Home By Fr. Eric Bergman   By the Book Are You Saved? If Only! By Tim Staples   Eyes to See The Artist’s Intention By Michael Schrauzer   Truth be Told In the Name of Science By Robert P. Lockwood   Quick Questions   Last Writes By Karl Keating    Subscribe    Permissions

Four other books that aren’t directly (or are only partially) anti-Dawkins deserve mention:

• Anthony Flew was for many years the world’s leading atheist. He was, however, intellectually open enough to follow the evidence wherever it might lead—and it led to God. His 2007 book, There Is a God (HarperOne) details his journey from atheism to God. Flew is not a Christian—he might best be described as a deist.
• Francis Collins is well known as the director of the Human Genome Project. In The Language of God (Free Press, 2006), he shows how a scientist can also be a Christian. Collins too made the journey from atheism to Protestant Christianity. He discusses Dawkins in passing.
• Dinesh D’Souza has penned an excellent defense of Christianity in What’s So Great About Christianity (Regnery, 2007). He ranges over much of the ground disputed by the atheists, and shows clearly how Christianity is, indeed, great.
• On a more philosophical level, Catholic professor John Haught addresses the bevy of atheists in God and the New Atheism (Westminster John Knox, 2008). Haught has written extensively on science and theology, and this book is another valuable addition.