Talking about what it feels like is as real as it gets
Adam Phillips: Whose Church?, 24 January 2013
Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense
by Francis Spufford.
Faber, 224 pp., £12.99, September 2012,978 0 571 22521 7 Show More
by Francis Spufford.
Faber, 224 pp., £12.99, September 2012,
Our Church: A Personal History of the Church of England
by Roger Scruton.
Atlantic, 199 pp., £20, November 2012,978 1 84887 198 4 Show More
by Roger Scruton.
Atlantic, 199 pp., £20, November 2012,
“... of Francis Spufford’s engaging new book calls them, meaning above all Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins – believe in spite of all evidence that eventually the religious will see sense. And yet with their magical belief in the truth of science – their taking for granted a consensus about the value of scientific evidence – and their unspoken ... ”