Terry Eagleton's witty and polemical
Reason, Faith, and Revolution is bound to cause a stir
among scientists, theologians, people of faith and people of no
faith, as well as general readers eager to understand the God
Debate. On the one hand, Eagleton demolishes what he calls the
"superstitious" view of God held by most atheists and agnostics and
offers in its place a revolutionary account of the Christian Gospel
On the other hand, he launches a stinging assault on the betrayal
of this revolution by institutional Christianity.
There is little joy here, then,
either for the anti-God brigade-Richard Dawkins and Christopher
Hitchens in particular-nor for many conventional believers.
Instead, Eagleton offers his own vibrant account of religion and
politics in a book that ranges from the Holy Spirit to the recent
history of the Middle East, from Thomas Aquinas to the Twin
Towers.