Excerpts from the book:
What's so New About New Atheism?
«The New Atheists are, in their own way, evangelistic in intent and ambitious in hope. They see atheism as the only plausible worldview for our times, and they see belief in God as downright dangerous.»
«There are four figures who have especially come to embody the New Atheist movement. Indeed, one might call them ‘The Four Horsemen of the New Atheist Apocalypse’—Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens.»
Twentieth-Century Shift
«Having moved from a time in which it was impossible not to believe, through a time in which it became possible not to believe, we have now arrived at a situation in which, for the elites especially, it has become impossible to believe. . . in this third stage it is theism that is considered eccentric and dangerous.»
Christians and Atheists: Why Can't We All Just Get Along?
«Our task is to present, to teach, to explain, and to defend Christian theism. On this point, the defense of biblical theism reveals the great divide in intellectual thought to be not merely over the existence of God but over the question of whether he has spoken.»
«Evangelical Christians simply cannot surrender biblical authority, propositional revelation, and biblical theism in order to meet the various challenges presented to us in the twenty-first century.»
We Can't Both Be Right
«In the end, the existence of the supernatural, self-existent, and self-revealing God is the only adequate starting point for Christian theology. God possesses all of the perfections revealed in Scripture, or there is no coherent theology presented in the Bible... The New Atheists are certainly right about one very important thing—it’s atheism or biblical theism. There is nothing in between.»
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