Confrontation between Contemporary Christianity and New Atheism
- Author:
- Morteza PeiroJafari
- Level:
- Master
- Subject(s):
- Abrahamic Religions
- Language:
- Farsi
- Faculty:
- Faculty of Religions
- Year:
- 2015
- Publisher:
- URD Press
- Supervisor(s):
- Homayoun Hemmati
- Advisor(s):
- Ali Shahbazi
New Atheism is a new type of atheism with adversarial attitude tends to fight and militate against any kind of Religious belief. This current attitude depended on scientific theories such as evolution, consider the Religion as a natural phenomenon along with other the phenomena of human social life that needs to new inquiry about it. After the 9/11 they openly have announced the fighting with Religion and wrote several books about this issue. Richard domains and Daniel Dennett as a prominent figures of new atheism have wrote several books and numerous article opposed Religion specially Christianity. On the other side of battlefield, from the Christian world, Alister McGrath and Alvin Plantinga have arisen to defend of Christian beliefs. This essay after the outlining the overall atmosphere exhaust the evaluation of Plantinga and McGrath’s criticism of Dennett and Dawkins. With regard to scientific theology and reformed epistemology, McGrath and Plantinga try to response to the new atheists’ criticisms through debating, writing some books and make a speech. according to scientific theology that regards the Proofs of the Existence of God as a confirmation not evidence and reformed epistemology that opposed to argumentation, both theologian could answer to Dawkins and Dennett. This essay explicate the McGrath’s and Plantinga’s approaches of Christian defense and so explain differences between them.