Dr. Stuart & Andrea Pattico

Posted by Dr. Stuart Pattico.

The following is an excerpt from Why God Won't Go Away, written by Alister McGrath, a former atheist , who is Professor of Theology, Ministry and Education at King's College London:

“I’d just finished giving a lecture in London early in 2010. A young man came up afterwards and asked me to sign a copy of my textbook Christian Theology: An Introduction. I asked him what had led him to study theology. He told me that he’d read Richard Dawkins’ God Delusion a year or so earlier and it seemed so unfair and one-sided that he felt he needed to hear the other side. So he started going to church. After a while he found he could not sustain his faith in the parody when confronted with the real thing. He converted to Christianity – joyfully and decisively. ‘Without Dawkins,’ he told me, ‘I would never have given God a second thought.’

As I signed the book the young man told me he had a theological question for me. Since The God Delusion had been instrumental in his conversion, should he thank God for Richard Dawkins in his prayers?

I’m still thinking about that one.”

Alister McGrath, Why God Won't Go Away: Engaging with the New Athesism (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge) pp. 98-99.

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