Outgrowing Dawkins: God for Grown Ups | Rupert Shortt with a response from James Orr
Duration: 1 hour 25 mins
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This event took place on 28 November 2019 and was jointly organised by the Von Hügel Institute for Critical Catholic Inquiry at St Edmund's College and the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion.
Rupert Shortt is religion editor of The Times Literary Supplement and a Research Associate at the Von Hügel Institute, University of Cambridge. His books include Christianophobia: A Faith Under Attack (2012), Rowan’s Rule: The Biography of the Archbishop (2014), God Is No Thing: Coherent Christianity (2016), and Does Religion Do More Harm Than Good? (2019). James Orr is University Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge and Founder and Director of ‘Trinity Forum Cambridge’. He is the author of The Mind of God and the Works of Nature: Laws and Powers in Naturalism, Platonism, and Classical Theism (2019). |
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| Created: | 2019-12-06 09:44 |
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| Collection: | Von Hugel Institute |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Von Hügel Institute |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Keywords: | atheism; Richard Dawkins; theology; faith; philosophy of religion; science; |
| Abstract: | In his latest book 'Outgrowing God' Richard Dawkins tries to show that all religious belief is intellectually nonsensical. But does he even understand what he rejects? Rupert Shortt's incisive rebuttal exposes the main flaws in Dawkins’s arguments—his weakness for crude caricatures, selective way with evidence, ignorance of philosophy, history and theology, and even his questionable interpretations of science. |
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