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Michael Kinsley, in The New York Times Book Review, lauded Hitchens's "logical flourishes and conundrums, many of them entertaining to the nonbeliever". He concluded that "Hitchens has outfoxed the Hitchens watchers by writing a serious and deeply felt book, totally consistent with his beliefs of a lifetime".
No definite Christian documents—orthodox, Gnostic, or otherwise—have ever been found at this site. [16] The texts of the Nag Hammadi library are not "the most ancient texts in Christianity", but later Gnostic texts (usually dated to the 2nd and 3rd century CE), which were written after the canonical Gospels. Contrarily to Brown's statements ...
The argument from reason is a transcendental argument against metaphysical naturalism and for the existence of God (or at least a supernatural being that is the source of human reason). The best-known defender of the argument is C. S. Lewis. Lewis first defended the argument at length in his 1947 book, Miracles: A Preliminary Study.
Many Christians anticipate the Second Coming of Jesus, when he will fulfill the rest of Messianic prophecy, such as the Last Judgment, the general resurrection, establishment of the Kingdom of God, and the Messianic Age (see the article on Preterism for contrasting Christian views). The New Testament traces Jesus' line to that of David; however ...
The Inquisition of the Middle Ages. Abridged. New York: Macmillan. The Christian Delusion, edited by John W. Loftus, foreword by Dan Barker (Prometheus Books, 2010) The End of Christianity, edited by John W. Loftus (Prometheus Books, 2011) John W. Loftus, Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity (Prometheus Books, 2008)
The New York Times wrote that, "Perhaps Mr. Huxley, in The Perennial Philosophy has, at this time, written the most needed book in the world." [6] The Times described the book as an: ... anthology [that] is above all a masterpiece of discrimination.... Leibniz gave the name of the Perennial Philosophy to this theme. Mr.
Commenting in The New York Times Book Review during the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, Steven Pinker chose Letter to a Christian Nation as the one book that he would want Barack Obama to read, saying: "Some have criticized the uncompromising tone of this atheist best seller, but it's mild stuff compared with the acid you guys have been ...
The book was published August 11, 2004, [2] and it was awarded the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction the following year. [3] The paperback edition was published in October 2005. In the same month it entered The New York Times Best Seller list at number four, and remained on the list for a total of 33 weeks. [4]