Flew makes two straight-forward confessions in this book that not only prompted many Christian apologists and theologians to praise his openness and courage, but also raise the hostility of atheist leaders to denounce him as “old and senile”. Rather, his focus was on, as he claimed from the very beginning, developing arguments to support HIS position, grounded in the Socratic Method: “We must follow the argument wherever it leads.”ĭr. Bertrand Russell, Flew’s writings didn’t originate from a disdain for organized religion. Why? Because unlike so many others such as Dr. Flew wrote for over 50 years on anti-theology with an admired approach that was systematic, comprehensive, original and extremely influential. As Ravi Zacharias once said, Flew was the standard for studying atheistic philosophy in his university education.ĭr. Lewis) in 1950, became the most widely printed philosophical publication of the last century. His ‘Theology and Falsification’, presented first to the Oxford University Socratic Club (chaired by C.S. Antony Flew was the author of over 30 professional philosophical works that helped set the agenda for atheism for over half a century.
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