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The Unknown God: Sermons Responding to the New Atheists is unavailable, but you can change that!

What is the so-called New Atheism? The first decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed a cluster of authors who have attained public notoriety through their berating of religion and their popularizing of atheism. How should Christians and other believers understand and respond to this attack on their faith? In this collection of sermons, leading academic theologians and philosophers who...

should God exist, might have a divine purpose—to purge and to test the human race. What Ivan cannot stomach is a God who has given adult humans the freedom to inflict suffering on children. Ivan is not so much saying: take away God and everything is permitted; he is saying that he knows that God does not exist, and that is why adults have the freedom to abuse children. To demonstrate this circumstance, Ivan tells Alyosha that he has made a journalistic collection of atrocities, “certain interesting
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