![]() ![]() ![]() It was, as he puts it, a “pilgrimage of reason”, leading him from denial of God to the acceptance of the existence of what he termed as a “self-existent, immutable, immaterial, omnipotent, and omniscient Being.”įlew tells us that he wasn’t always an atheist until his dramatic turn-around in his old age. But this account of Flew’s journey, from hardened atheism to belief in God, is truly amazing. ![]() Written by a professional philosopher, it is perhaps to be expected that this book seems, in parts, dense and abstruse. There is No God-How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind “t may well be that no one is as surprised as I am that my exploration of the Divine has after all these years turned from denial to discovery,” he exclaimed. No one expected this from one of the world’s leading champions of atheism, not least Flew himself. His numerous books helped set the philosophical agenda for atheism for half a century or so, until when, around the age of 80, just a few years before his death, he declared that he was wrong all along about God. 2010) was definitely one of the most prolific and influential atheist philosophers of modern times. One isn’t sure if he was truly at one time the “World’s Most Notorious Atheist”, as the title of this book describes him, or if this epithet is simply a clever sales gimmick, but the late Professor Antony Flew (d. There is A God-How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind ![]()
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