Financial Times
Baptist Times - Paul Goodliff
Religion & Theology
Religion & Theology - Lluis Oviedo
Reason, Faith, and Revolution is a challenging, feisty contribution to the current public debate about God and religion. It is poetic, wise,and clear. Eagleton proves he is more than a literary critic; he's also an exceptional preacher." —Kurt Armstrong, Christian Week
Christian Week - Kurt Armstrong
Comment Magazine
Boston Globe
Boston Globe - Rich Barlow
thenewamerican.com
thenewamerican.com - James Heiser
The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail - Kurt Kleiner
Anglican Theological Review
Anglican Theological Review - Lyndon Shakespeare
“Eagleton writes with lucidity, wit and panache and, though an atheist himself, successfully shreds what the conflated Ditchkins say in their books.
Spectator - Piers Paul Read
‘A boisterous polemic … Eagleton yields to none in his denunciation of institutional Christianity and a punitive, vengeful God as a betrayal of Jesus’s championing of the poor and rejected.’
Times Literary Supplement - Jonathan Benthall
"Terry Eagleton is at his best as a critic, and much of the book, which is really a series of lectures delivered at Yale University, is devoted to incisive and angry analyses of what is wrong with our world in the twenty-first century."—Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Metapsychology Online Reviews
Metapsychology - Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
The God Delusion is, by turns, thought-provoking, infuriating, inspiring and very, very funny."—London Review of Books
Evening Standard
Evening Standard - Melanie McDonagh
Hamlet is hardly exhausted by describing it as ‘a revenge drama’.”—Laurie Taylor, New Humanist Magazine
New Humanist Magazine - Laurie Taylor
The Independent
The Independent - Paul Vallely
Good Book Guide
“This is sure to ruffle feathers on both sides of the God debate. Eagleton offers his own polemical chronicle of religion and politics from the Holy Spirit to the Twin Towers. Many will, simply, have to read this.” - Bookseller
Terry Eagleton has a deserved reputation as one of the most influential of British literary critics and cultural commentators who has developed over his many publications a highly effective communicative style. This book is no exception.”—Oliver Davies, Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theory
— Oliver Davies
Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theory
There is a great deal here that readers from different backgrounds will find informative. It is a polemical book, but the deeper sense of the polemic is the subtle and multi-formed argument that what is at stake here, in the distinction between religious and secularist values, is actually a way of being alive. As Eagleton powerfully states, faith is never about the superficial use of reason.”—Oliver Davies, Scottish Bulletin on Evangelical Theory
— Oliver Davies
Scottish Bulletin on Evangelical Theory
''Eagleton is one of Britain''s leading literary critics and writes with verve and humour.'' — Paul Goodliff, Baptist Times
— Paul Goodliff
"This is a good and stimulating reading for theologians, and invites in a provocative way to think about theology''s identity and mission in times of deep changes and challenges." —Lluis Oviedo, Religion & Theology
— Lluis Oviedo
"Reason, Faith, and Revolution is a challenging, feisty contribution to the current public debate about God and religion. It is poetic, wise,and clear. Eagleton proves he is more than a literary critic; he''s also an exceptional preacher." —Kurt Armstrong, Christian Week
— Kurt Armstrong
"Erudite, but often entertaining volume." —Rich Barlow, Boston Globe
— Rich Barlow
"[Eagleton''s] gleeful, often satirical, piercing of the chinks in the armor of modern atheist apologetics is beneficial to any reader interested in the ''God Debate.''" —James Heiser, thenewamerican.com
— James Heiser
"Eagleton is an unconventional and entertaining thinker. His book is as much about capitalism, politics, and literary criticism as it is about religion." —Kurt Kleiner, The Globe and Mail
— Kurt Kleiner
Eagleton''s book "meets the challenge of the New Atheists with a sense of playfulness (for example, he melds the two leading lights of the movement, Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, into one signifier, "Ditchkins"), and a dogged refusal to let Oxbridge-trained rhetoric stand in for actual reason. The result is a work bathed in wit and punctuated with soaring prose that, while sympathetic to religious truth-claims, ends with a flourish on his Marxist hopes for an embrace of "tragic humanism.""—Lyndon Shakespeare, Anglican Theological Review
— Lyndon Shakespeare
Anglican Theological Review
“Eagleton writes with lucidity, wit and panache and, though an atheist himself, successfully shreds what the conflated Ditchkins say in their books.”
— Piers Paul Read
‘A boisterous polemic … Eagleton yields to none in his denunciation of institutional Christianity and a punitive, vengeful God as a betrayal of Jesus’s championing of the poor and rejected.’
— Jonathan Benthall
Times Literary Supplement
"Terry Eagleton is at his best as a critic, and much of the book, which is really a series of lectures delivered at Yale University, is devoted to incisive and angry analyses of what is wrong with our world in the twenty-first century."—Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Metapsychology Online Reviews
— Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
"Eagleton’s book began as a series of lectures delivered at Yale University. They must have been a riot…. He’s fantastically rude all round, about ''Ditchkins,'' about religion itself, which ''has wrought untold misery in human affairs''…. It’s terrific polemic."—Melanie McDonagh, Evening Standard
— Melanie McDonagh
"Eagleton…is a powerful and engaging writer, perhaps no more so than when, with bursts of comic vituperation which recall Kenneth Tynan at his best, he is seeing off those he regards as second-rate opponents. But probably more relevant is the sense among many readers and critics that Eagleton is providing a welcome antidote to the rather simple-minded conception of religion that Dawkins and Hitchens selected for their demolition jobs. He is rather like a wise old schoolmaster explaining to two eager young students that the significance of Hamlet is hardly exhausted by describing it as ‘a revenge drama’.”—Laurie Taylor, New Humanist Magazine
— Laurie Taylor
"…[a] gloriously rumbustious counter-blast to Dawkinsite atheism…paradoxes sparkle throughout this coruscatingly brilliant polemic…. Eagleton is stronger on reason than Ditchkins, for he thinks carefully about what his opponents say…. This is, then, a demolition job which is both logically devastating and a magnificently whirling philippic.… It is easy to see why a lot of people will not be happy with this book. Much of what it says is too true.”—Paul Vallely, The Independent
— Paul Vallely
Association for Mormon Letters
Association for Mormon Letters - Blair Dee Hodges
“[B]etter than any previous book of its kind.”—James Wood, The New Yorker
The New Yorker - James Wood
Booklist (starred review)
The Bookseller
"There are plenty of things in this book to anger all sorts of people, and few will not find something in it with which to disagree strongly. And that's just fine. This is an exceptional contribution to recent debates around faith, religion, and atheism."—Dale B. Martin, Yale University
Salon
"Eagleton''s book is a brisk and welcome contribution to the ongoing discussion about the place of religion in the world today. Readers will find plenty to challenge them in this brief snapshot of today''s ''God Debate.''"-- Blair Dee Hodges, Association for Mormon Letters
— Blair Dee Hodges
Association for Mormon Letters
“[B]etter than any previous book of its kind.”—James Wood, The New Yorker
— James Wood
“Brisk, funny, and challenging . . . . One of the most fascinating, most original and prickliest works of philosophy to emerge from the post-9/11 era.”—Andrew O’Hehir, Salon
— Andrew O'Hehir
