Poison or Cure? Religious Belief in the Modern World

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The Ethics and Public Policy Center and the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University hosted a debate ... all » between writer Christopher Hitchens and Oxford University professor Alister McGrath on the role of religious belief in the modern world. The debate was held on October 11, 2007 in Gaston Hall, in Georgetown University's Healy Hall. CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS contributes an essay on books each month to The Atlantic Monthly and is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. He is the author of twelve books, including the best-selling God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (May, 2007). He is also the author of Thomas Jefferson: Author of America (2006), A Long Short War: the Postponed Liberation of Iraq (2003), Why Orwell Matters (2002), The Trial of Henry Kissinger (2001), and Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001). ALISTER MCGRATH is Professor of Historical Theology at Oxford University. He has written extensively on historical theology, the Reformation, doctrine, the interaction of science and theology, and biographies of John Calvin, Thomas Torrance, and J. I. Packer. His most recent books include The Dawkins Delusion (2007), Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life (2005), and The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World (2005). His A Scientific Theology (4 volumes, 2001-2004) has been hailed as one the most important works of systematic theology to appear in recent years. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2005 and in 2009 he will give the prestigious Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen. MICHAEL CROMARTIE (moderator) is Vice President at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he directs both the Evangelicals in Civic Life and Religion and the Media programs.
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