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“Christopher Hitchens and the Hound of Heaven” Brian Mattson’s review of “The Faith of Christopher Hitchens” The Gospel Coalition

One difficulty reviewing Larry Alex Taunton’s new book—The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World’s Most Notorious Atheist—is deciding on a genre. While the back of the book categorizes it as “Biography/Autobiography/Religious,” I’ve decided it primarily belongs to a time-honored American storytelling tradition: the road trip. Christopher Read more…

By larry, 6 years6 years ago

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Mere Orthodoxy’s review of “The Faith of Christopher Hitchens”

If Christopher Hitchens didn’t exist, we wouldn’t be able to invent him.” That blurb of praise from the novelist Ian McEwan may have helped to sell published collections of essays, but it turns out to be more true than its source perhaps intended. The late journalist and New Atheist kingpin Read more…

By larry, 6 years6 years ago

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Christianity Today’s “Faith and Culture” review of “The Faith of Christopher Hitchens” by Douglas Wilson

The title of this book is quite provocative, inviting a potential reader to be unsure what he is going to think about it. Everyone knows that Christopher Hitchens was the champeeeen professional wrestler of atheism—no less aggressive than one of those guys, and quite a bit more articulate. So what could possibly Read more…

By larry, 6 years6 years ago

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New York Times review of “The Faith of Christopher Hitchens”

Of all that can transpire in a bedroom, nothing can be as titillating to the religious, or those of us who write about them, as a dying man’s conversion. Oscar Wilde’s deathbed baptism remains a coup for the Roman Catholic Church 116 years later, and an embarrassment for those who cherish his Read more…

By larry, 6 years6 years ago