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Books

The Real God: A Response to Anthony Freeman’s God in Us

Gordon Giles reviews Bishop Richard Harries’ reply to the book that got Anthony Freeman sacked from his vicarage.

The debate is on! Anthony Freeman is a ‘Christian Humanist’ who does not believe in a supernatural God, or Heaven, an afterlife, or the authority of the Bible. For him, Jesus is merely a unique focus for human ideals, and prayer amounts to talking to yourself. As his second we have a sympathetic reviewer, John Mann, who calls himself a ‘Christian Atheist’, who I take to be a follower of Christ who believes there is no God. (See review in Philosophy Now No.10, p.

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