Religion After God: A Review of “Progressive Atheism”
by Dr. Randal Rauser
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“Atheism, we’ll say, for all we know may come at the beginning of religion rather than the end.” (173) That is not the kind of quote you’d expect to find in a typical book defending an atheistic perspective. But then again, J.L. Schellenberg did not write a typical atheistic book. Progressive Atheism: How Moral Evolution Changes the God Debate (Bloomsbury, 2019) is a manifesto of innovative and iconoclastic atheist thought in the manner of Ronald Dworkin’s Religion without God. Practically speaking, this means that Schellenberg is dissatisfied with many conventional atheistic positions. New atheism... Read More
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