Contributors -- vii Preface -- xi Acknowledgements -- xv

Introduction: The Future of Atheism: An Introductory Appraisal -- p.1 Robert B. Stewart

1. The Future of Atheism: A Dialogue -- p.17 Daniel Dennett and Alister McGrath

2. Atheism: Twilight or Dawn? -- p.51 Keith M. Parsons

3. In Defense of Theistic Arguments -- p.67 William Lane Craig

4. Despair, Optimism, and Rebellion -- p.97 Evan Fales

5. Getting Scientific about Religion -- p.113 Hugh J. McCann

6. The Twilight of Scientific Atheism: Responding to Thomas Nagel's Last Stand -- p.127 J.P. Moreland

7. God, Naturalism, and the Foundations of Morality -- p.141 Paul Copan

The God Hypothesis in the Future of Atheism -- p.163 Ted Peters

Notes -- p.183

Index -- p.209

The subject of Atheism has been much in the news recently with the highly publicized release of books espousing atheism by Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens. This book provides interested readers an important and fair dialogue between leading proponents of the two points of view.

American philosopher Daniel Dennett is currently the Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. Oxford theologian Alister McGrath is Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Oxford and directs its Centre for Christian Apologetics. A transcript of the dialogue featuring McGrath and Dennett on the subject allows the reader to see in print how both men present their positions in light of the other's.
The volume also provides the reader with a thoughtful assessment of atheism as over against Christian atheism by an interdisciplinary team of philosophers and theologians.