Interview with Terry Eagleton Part 4

Terry Eagleton's witty and polemical Reason, Faith, and Revolution has caused a stir among scientists, theologians, people of faith, and people of no faith, as well as among general readers eager to understand the current "God debate." Eagleton takes aim at what he calls the "truly shocking ignorance" of religion displayed by Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens in their best-selling atheist manifestos. His own account of the "tragic humanism" at the center of the Western religious tradition includes provocative reflections on death, suffering, and love; on revelation and reasonable belief; on the relationship between science and rationality; and on the peculiarly modern tension between the claims of civilization and culture.