![]() ![]() ![]() (Hitchens’s lack of philosophical acuity is painfully obvious in his debate with Christian philosopher, William Lane Craig, which is available on line.) I will address a few of these below, particularly the question of the logic of prayer. This anti-religious sentiment pops up throughout the book, hurled more as hand grenades than laid out as arguments. Consider his best-selling and embarrassing harangue, god is not Great (2006). Hitchens was an iconoclast (even writing a book against Mother Theresa called, in bad taste, The Missionary Position), a masterful conversationalist, and intrepid enough to write on some topics he was not fit to pronounce upon. In so doing, he reveals how one very articulate and intractable atheist came to terms with his imminent demise. ![]() (The book also includes a foreword by Graydon Carter and an afterward by Carol Blue, Hitchens’s widow.) Unlike most, who die un-narrated deaths, he knew of his impending demise, retained his writing prowess, and lived long enough to tell us of his dying. His dying was (quite fittingly) a literary morbidity: he wrote of it in a small, posthumously published book called Mortality. ![]() Reporter extraordinaire, atheist provocateur, prolific author, and acerbic commentator and debater, Christopher Hitchens died in 2011. Reviewed by Douglas Groothuis.Ĭhristopher Hitchens is dead, but he lived long enough to tell us of his dying. Denver Journal Book Review by Denver Seminary Professor Douglas GroothuisĬhristopher Hitchens, Mortality (New York: Twelve, 2012). ![]()
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