30 January 2014, The Tablet

Religion Without God

by Ronald Dworkin

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An Atheist’s History of Belief: understanding our most extraordinary invention Matthew KnealeFaith and UnbeliefStephen BullivantEvery big quake is followed by tremors. So it is with atheism: having survived the earth-shattering experience of New Atheism, readers are now gently rocked by a variety of publications by, about, against and for atheists. The three here reviewed range widely in tone, topic and quality. Ronald Dworkin was an eminent American philosopher before his death earlier last year. Religion Without God is the product of his 2011 Einstein Lectures, which he had intended to revise and extend. Three short chapters and a brief afterthought make an informed and subtle case for “religious atheism”, not in the sense of atheist churches, but of those, like Dworki
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