Tag Archives: Book Review

Sam Harris: Where Reason Fails, Resort To Dogma

This entry is part 3 of 6 in the series Sam Harris's Moral Landscape

Book Review My reaction to Sam Harris’s latest book has progressed from “painful” to “alarming”—alarming for what Sam Harris is doing to himself, and what he proposes for the rest of us. How, for example, does one explain a paragraph like this from one who claims to champion rationality? This does not mean, of course, …

January 19, 2011 – 9:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Origins and Science | Tagged , | Comments (7)

Watching Sam Harris Hurt Himself

This entry is part 2 of 6 in the series Sam Harris's Moral Landscape

Book Review I’m not sure which is more painful: seeing a brilliant intellect like Sam Harris be so deceived, or knowing how surely he is deceiving others. Either way I grieve. So far I’ve only read the introduction to his recent best-seller The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values, but that’s enough to …

January 17, 2011 – 3:32 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, New Atheism, Origins and Science | Tagged , | Comments (9)

Mike Licona’s Historiographical Approach to the Resurrection

The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach There’s considerable buzz going on about this new book from Mike Licona. I took a look through the table of contents on Amazon and decided to add my voice to it—and to order a copy of the book, which I’ve just done. Mike is a scholar and …

November 4, 2010 – 8:07 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences | Tagged | Comments (2)

The Hole In My Mission

Book Review As if the Sermon on the Mount and the Prophets weren’t disturbing enough, now I’ve gone and read Richard Stearns’s 2009 book, The Hole in Our Gospel: What Does God Expect of Us? The Answer That Changed My Life and Might Just Change the World. I don’t know whether to recommend you read …

March 19, 2010 – 9:48 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Deep Social Change, Service | Tagged , , | Comments (6)

Stephen C. Meyer Interview/Podcast

Book Review/Podcast I had the opportunity to talk with Dr. Stephen C. Meyer by phone on Monday, January 11, about his powerful recent book Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design. The book’s main argument, if I may be so bold as to summarize 600+ pages into one sentence, is that …

January 13, 2010 – 11:38 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , | Comments (27)

The Theology of Scientific Naturalism

Book Review When I picked up Cornelius Hunter’s Science’s Blind Spot: The Unseen Religion of Scientific Naturalism, I expected the “unseen religion” of the title to refer in some way to atheistic naturalism itself. Whether naturalism is a form of religion depends on definitions. If religion is defined as a system of beliefs involving the …

January 5, 2010 – 10:43 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , , | Comments (34)