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After Atheism: Science, Religion and the Meaning of Life
by Mark Vernon
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (2007-11-12)
ISBN: 0230013422
EAN: 9780230013421
Dewy Decimal #: 211.7
Paperback: 216 pages
SKU: B480-1040
Condition: New
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Customer Reviews
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This book left me somewhere between cold and lukewarm
Rating  (2)
Date: 2008-05-18
3 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
I am sympathetic to Mark Vernon. He studied theology, became a priest, became an atheist, discovered a 'poverty of spirit' in atheism, and is currently toying with agnosticism and mysticism. I studied theology, did not become a priest because I became an atheist at the end of my theological studies, then became a Humanist, and I am dismayed by so-called representatives like Richard Dawkins who sell Atheism t-shirts, for god's sake. Humanism is depressingly dominated by men like Dawkins, but the rediscovery of some form of mysticism takes Mark Vernon back into supernaturalism. How odd then that he is about to publish a book called "Teach Yourself Humanism".
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passionate searching
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-04-01
5 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is a superb book. It challenges our pet certainties whether of belief or unbelief. It asks us constantly, "What exactly do you believe (or disbelieve) in?" It advocates for "radical agnostcism." That is the process of vigourous searching, and pushing knowledge to its limits, whilst accepting that our ignorance will always be bigger than our knowledge.
Restless, relentless, always seeking, gently insisting on the value of integrity in our search for truth. This is the best book I have read guiding us round the God shaped hole in our consciousness. It shows clearly what we gain from the search, and how much we lose when we reach a closed conclusion on the question.
Reading the book I felt in the company of a wise, experienced inteligent guide. Gentle, tolerant, learned. Takes you firmly on the journey whilst allowing you to reach your own conclusions.
I suspect that Mark Vernon is a truer seeker of God now that he is free of a formal church role.
I highly recommend this book to believers and unbelievers alike.
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