A review by quackalacka
The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine by Alister E. McGrath

3.0

McGrath makes a calm, level-headed, and fair argument regarding the failings of Dawkins’s book. His language is clear. His criticisms mirror those that I, myself, had while reading. And while McGrath’s reply to Dawkins is valid, it doesn’t resolve anything. It doesn’t debunk those claims that are actually valid (e.g., that people pick and choose what to believe from within their religious texts), and it doesn’t address the religious arguments Dawkins was addressing in the first place (in order to explain, contextualize, and strengthen them). McGrath critiques Dawkins, but without providing a strong defense on religion’s behalf. We are left in an agnostic stalemate.