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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 239 EAN: 9781845502614 ISBN: 1845502612 Label: Chrstian Focus Manufacturer: Chrstian Focus Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 144 Publication Date: June 01, 2007 Publisher: Chrstian Focus Studio: Chrstian Focus Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: David Robertson wanted there to be an intelligent Christian response to The God Delusion so he wrote an open letter to Richard Dawkins, posted on his church website. This, somehow, found its way onto Dawkins own website where it generated the largest response, before or since. The ferocity and shallowness of thinking, of some of the responses spurred David to write further letters, which form the basis of this book. They explain a credible basis for faith that counteracts the atheist myths that so much popular discussion is based upon. Christians and nonChristians, need to know where Dawkins is weak and also how to explain things better! The Dawkins Letters does this, drawing upon Davids experience as debater, letter writer, pastor and author. To engage with the culture you need openness and honesty, so there are points of agreement with Dawkins but that genuine spirit of inquiry also needs to point our where some of his thinking does not hold together. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Helpful in thinking through the issuesRichard Dawkins published a book entitled The God Delusion which articulated his brand of atheism. In light of the buzz surrounding the book, a pastor in Scotland wanted to equip his church to think about the book and the faith of Christianity. So he wrote an open letter to Dawkins and posted it on the church's website. Soon after this, the letter was published on Dawkins' own website, where it generated a substantial response from the congregation of atheists. There remained a tone ... Read More Rating: - Worth ReadingDavid Robertson is a Scottish Presbyterian who ministers in Dundee. Having read Dawkins 'God Delusion' he decided to respond with a series of letters addressing the major themes of the book. These include letters addressing: the notion that atheists are the truly enlightened, intelligent ones; the impossibility of true beauty without God; the myth of atheist tolerance and rationality; the myth of a cruel Old Testament God; the false dichotomy Dawkins creates between science and religion; the "who ... Read More Rating:  - The source for this book is available for all to seeWhat a cynical attempt to cash in on the atheist movement by publishing a series of disingenuous rants that were posted on some christian bozo's web site. This guy's postings are available online for free (so no need to spend the money to buy his stupid book.). They consist of incoherent ramblings that never actually address the thesis of Richard Dawkins's book: That the idea that there is some supernatural jewish grandfather living in the sky is a load of bunk. (Actually ... Read More Rating:  - Dawkins can sleep soundly in his bed.While David Robertson does score a few hits on Dawkins by raising some valid criticisms of "The God Delusion" these are heavily out numbered by the misses. Roberston's arguments often do not address the point he feels he is attacking and others are just not convincing. When Robertson attacks Dawkins description of the Old testiment God as cruel and vicious which Dawkins bases on such things as the biblical flood etc Robertson quoates a bit of the old testement which basically says God is ... Read More Rating: - A Competent ResponseDavid Robertson, a Free Church of Scotland pastor who lives in Dundee, wanted there to be an intelligent Christian response to Richard Dawkins' bestselling The God Delusion. To that end he wrote an open letter to Richard Dawkins and subsequently posted it on his church's web site. The letter somehow found its way to Dawkins who posted it on his own website where it generated a response that was massive in scope and in passion. According to the back of The Dawkins Letters, "The ferocity, and shallowness ... Read More 
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