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God Talk
Stanley Fish, NYTimes
May 3, 2009
In the
opening sentence of the last
chapter of his new book,
“Reason, Faith and
Revolution,” the British
critic Terry Eagleton asks,
“Why are the most unlikely
people, including myself,
suddenly talking about God?”
His answer, elaborated in
prose that is alternately
witty, scabrous and angry,
is that the other candidates
for guidance — science,
reason, liberalism,
capitalism — just don’t
deliver what is ultimately
needed. “What other symbolic
form,” he queries, “has
managed to forge such direct
links between the most
universal and absolute of
truths and the everyday
practices of countless
millions of men and women?”
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