Dawkins, part II

Having written a short appendix for an essay on Richard Dawkins, for which the prime content was an engagement with the aforementioned suggestions of Nicholas Lash, my attention was drawn to a critique of Dawkins by Lash himself.

Theological critiques of Dawkins are numerous – and, from my experience, largely based on the wooden almost fundamentalist Christianity which forms Dawkins’ core frame of reference in the first place for the complex phenomenon of ‘religion’. Lash, however, comes out with some profoundly engaging points, particularly in terms of Dawkins’ total failure to engage with the countless volumes of stuff that has been written since time began on the mystery of divinity.

You can access the article here.