Such a title may suggest that Feser plans a rehashing of the famous “five proofs” offered by St. Surprisingly, given Feser’s rhetorical talents (visible in numerous interviews and on his website), it elicited little response from the “Four Horsemen.” Feser has recently published an additional text of importance to the debate, Five Proofs of the Existence of God, which also deserves a response. A more explicitly philosophical apologetic has been offered by philosophy professor Ed Feser, whose 2010 book, The Last Superstition, ably refutes the most salient arguments of the New Atheism. These apologetics have been largely theological and historical. The religious response to this movement has included the likes of Orthodox theologian David Bentley Hart, with his snarky yet serious 2009 Atheist Delusions, and Reformed theologian Douglas Wilson, who toured America debating Hitchens. Other books written by the so-called “Four Horsemen” of New Atheism (Harris, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens) followed. Almost fifteen years ago, Sam Harris’s best-seller The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reasoninaugurated what became known as the New Atheist movement.
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