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Revelation and the new Atheism
2021Abstract This chapter contains a critical discussion of what three New Atheists—Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens—presuppose about divine revelation. Though none of these authors discusses this concept directly, their explicit remarks about alleged divinely authored texts are based on presuppositions about what a ...
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Abstract Chapter 10 examines a late flash in the science–religion conflict, the new atheist movement of the early twenty-first century. It contextualises the position of the new atheists and examines what was at stake in their strenuous assertions.
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The Expository Times, 2012
The rise of the new atheism in the first decade of the twenty-first century is mostly associated with four central figures: Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens. Other public intellectuals have identified themselves with the new atheism movement, most notably the literary figures Ian McEwen, Martin Amis, Philip
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The rise of the new atheism in the first decade of the twenty-first century is mostly associated with four central figures: Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens. Other public intellectuals have identified themselves with the new atheism movement, most notably the literary figures Ian McEwen, Martin Amis, Philip
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2018
New atheists face an old problem that entangles them with their theist opponents. The fundamental cosmological question—why does the world exist?—cannot be answered in scientific terms. As questions of cause slip into infinite regress, new atheists, like the theists they resist, must posit that something simply exists: something must be granted ...
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New atheists face an old problem that entangles them with their theist opponents. The fundamental cosmological question—why does the world exist?—cannot be answered in scientific terms. As questions of cause slip into infinite regress, new atheists, like the theists they resist, must posit that something simply exists: something must be granted ...
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The New Outspoken Atheism and Education
Harvard Educational Review, 2008In this essay, Nel Noddings calls upon U.S. public schools to equip students with a more nuanced understanding of religious vocabulary, history, and ideas. Examining recent books by outspoken atheists including Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens, Noddings argues that schools should help students "communicate across ...
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The Presumption and Insight of New Atheism
Theology and Science, 2012Abstract This article analyzes the insights and shortcomings of selected New Atheist writings. The first section places the New Atheists into critical dialogue with Catholic philosopher Charles Taylor. Here I argue that the most rhetorically compelling claim of New Atheism—that religion is at odds with the basic values of humanity—is also the point of ...
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A new tak on the "new atheism"
2018Without realizing it, we are living in a time in which a new kind of atheism seems to have broken all the bridges of dialogue with religion and its theologians. The irrationality of all religious beliefs, the new atheists argue, and the lack of coherence of many believers and many of their ministers and priests, make all faith impossible.
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2016
When we speak of scientific atheism today, we are exploring new ways to talk about issues that were already present in the occidental culture but now appear with new relevance. First, we offer a descriptive approach to the New Atheism and a presentation of its principal authors. In a critical way, we analyze the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic levels
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When we speak of scientific atheism today, we are exploring new ways to talk about issues that were already present in the occidental culture but now appear with new relevance. First, we offer a descriptive approach to the New Atheism and a presentation of its principal authors. In a critical way, we analyze the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic levels
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