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Greater Than You Think: A Theologian Answers the Atheists About God | 
 enlarge | Author: Thomas D. Williams
Publisher: FaithWords
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 57238
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0446514934
Dewey Decimal Number: 239
EAN: 9780446514934
ASIN: 0446514934
Publication Date: June 23, 2008
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The recent runaway bestsellers God Is Not Great and The God Delusion have left Christians feeling defensive but not necessarily equipped to refute the accusations of nonbelievers. The bestsellers have also provoked those who are the fence about whether God exists, and if so, whether He's good. In his trademark elegant prose, Father Williams provides accessible but intellectually rich answers for both groups. Questions include "Isn't religion just another name for superstition (or magic or myth)?""If God is all-good and all-powerful, how can evil exist in the world?" and "Hasn't science disproved God's existence?" For believers and those searching for something to believe in, Father Williams offers an easy-to-use resource for building up one's own faith and igniting others'.
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 Brilliantly and simply executed September 16, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book caught my eye in the grocery store. I got it on a whim and read it in two hours.
I found it very easy to understand and concise. It was extremely simple to see the logic in each answer to various questions that have been raised by athiests over the past few years. I found myself wondering if those athiests would feel likewise; or if they would even give this book a chance.
As a former non-believer, I do appreciate someone taking the time to answer these authors. I only hope that those for whom the book was intended are seeing it too.
 Are you kidding me?!! August 16, 2008
1 out of 19 found this review helpful
a reply??? to a book??? what was this guy on?
you'd think somebody insulted his mother. Well I think this is ridiculous. I cant believe it was published.
 A reasoned response??? July 30, 2008
11 out of 21 found this review helpful
Looking for a reasoned response to the arguments of Dawkins et al I read this book because that it is what the blurb promised.
But there is no attempt at all to rebut the arguments advanced in The God Delusion refuting the arguments for God's existence.
Instead, the author poses questions of his own which are not the questions a seeker looking for a rebuttal of Dawkins would ask.
In case I've missed it, would someone indicate to me where, in Father Williams' book he deals seriatim with Dawkins' arguments in chapter 3 of The God Delusion?
Surely, a theologian can come up with something better than asking: Hasn't science disproved God's existence? A shyster lawyer would hesitate about using that trick to shift the onus of proof.
Why do atheists hate God, he asks? One reacts by asking: How can they express an emotion about something which they don't believe exists?
Father Williams is an atheist in respect of every god other than the one who meets the requirements of Christian belief. Does that mean that he hates all the other gods? Of course it doesn't.
Unless Father Williams' belief in the Christian God prevents him from reasoning about whether other gods exist, then a process of reasoning similar to that used by Dawkins to reject Father williams' God has persuaded Father Williams to reject all except the Christian God. Emotion plays no more a part in Dawkins' reaching his conclusion that it does in Father Williams reaching his.
He faults Dawkins' expertise in theology which, he thinks, leads Dawkins to misunderstand the transcendent nature of God. Yet Father williams himself anthropomorphises by giving him (God) a human ear and the human emotion of love -- how else could he believe, as he says he does, that God listens to him and loves him?
Anyone expecting, as I did, to find in this book an apologia with the persuasive reasoning of a theologian such as the late Father Raymond E Brown runs the risk of being conned by the blurb.
Quick Read and Well Organized July 28, 2008
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
Fr. William's book is a quick read. He handles a very complicated subject in a well organized and thoughtful manner. I recommend it highly
Supported by Reason, Written with Love July 17, 2008
10 out of 14 found this review helpful
Starting with the clever title with multiple meanings (as the font size decreases to form separate phrases), Father Thomas presents a well reasoned rebuttal to Hitchens, Dawkins et al. This book explains what the nouveau-athiests cannot admit to themselves -- that they cling to their beliefs through a "faith" they claim to rise above. Father Thomas explains his views with love for all, using a quiet voice that best proclaims the value of his foundations.
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