Beyond the God Delusion

Read Fortress Press's interview with Richard Grigg, only on fortressforum.com! It is ironic but true that most theologians do not understand Godin the same way that is being criticized so heavily in such worksas Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion. In fact, argues RichardGrigg, most theologians left behind an unalloyed, classical theismabout two hundred years ago. Yet, Grigg argues, the many efforts to reconcile contemporaryscientific worldviews with Christian faith stop shy of the radicalreconception of God begun in contemporary theology andmade necessary by contemporary science. Grigg's erudite andprovocative book calls for a more radical theology, in whichnotions of divine transcendence and immanence, personhood,power, and the divine role in the evolving universe are radicalizedand reconceived. Building on the work of such theologians asSallie McFague and Gordon Kaufman, and with a strong grasp ofthe particulars of contemporary cosmology and biology, Grigg'sexciting work challenges us to an intellectual honesty as sturdy asour faith.