Yale University Press (London 2017). Pbk. 137 pages. £10.99. Terry Eagleton has emerged as one of the forefront commentators and writers of the English-speaking world. He has written more than fifty books on literary theory,...
Orbis Books (New York 2015). Pbk. 254 pages. £19.99. In 1985, at the height of the Thatcher government the then Solicitor General, Nicholas Fairbairn reiterated the old chestnut that the Church should leave alone what...
Michael Morton reviews Christianity in Review: A History of the Faith in 50 Books by Anthony Kenny. Darton, Longman and Todd (London 2015). Hbk. 256 pages. £14.99. To review a book that itself consists of...
Michael Morton reviews Culture and the Death of God by Terry Eagleton. Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, and London 2014). Pbk (2015). 248 pages. £10.99. God has been through a very rough patch over...
Michael Morton reviews Leonardo Boff’s book about Pope Francis, emphasizing the hopeful reform inspired by St. Francis of Assisi amid Church crises, while recognizing challenges in achieving meaningful change.
by Leonardo Boī translated by Dinah Livingstone Orbis Books (New York 2014). Pbk. 160 pages. £11.99. Leonardo Boff is a respected theologian from Brazil the Casa Santa and a former Franciscan friar who continues to...
Terry Eagleton has grown in stature over the years. From the late 1960s as the editor of Slant, a left-wing Catholic magazine brought out in the heady days after Vatican II, he became a renowned...
William Butler Yeats’ poem The Second Coming contains a much-quoted line: ‘the best lack all conviction, while the worst/are full of passionate intensity’. It was applied to the troubles in Northern Ireland, when the hard...
Many people will know that Karl Marx called religion the ‘opium of the people’. Far fewer, I would guess, will recall that he added that it was ‘the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart...
ISBN: 9780334041276. reviews By the late nineteenth century, as Friedrich Nietzsche disobligingly pointed out, most educated people in the West had ceased to believe in God. They had been won over to what they took...
