Some years ago the Jewish philosopher David Shatz wrote an essay titled “The Overexamined Life is not Worth Living.” That title could apply equally to chapter 31 of my 2012 apologetics book The Swedish Atheist, the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetic Rabbit Trails. The book features an extended Socratic-styled dialogue between an atheist named Sheridan and […]
The Swedish Atheist the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetic Rabbit Trails
Straw men and straw characters
My book The Swedish Atheist, the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetic Rabbit Trails provides a dialogical introduction to apologetic engagement set in a coffee shop. Over the course of one day I engage in an extended conversation about the meaning of life with an atheist named Sheridan. And who is Sheridan? This is how he is introduced: […]
The Swedish Atheist ebook is free on October 30th only! And half-price for November
Good news! InterVarsity Press has scheduled a promotion for my book The Swedish Atheist, the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetic Rabbit Trails. For one day only, on Wednesday, October 30th, the e-version of The Swedish Atheist, the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetic Rabbit Trails (InterVarsity, 2012) will be available *for free!* at the following online […]
Adam offers answers for the Swedish Atheist
Philosopher Adam Omelianchuk just reviewed The Swedish Atheist, the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetic Rabbit Trails and you can read his review here. Adam liked the book. For example, he writes: “The first half of the book consists of a protracted discussion over religious epistemology, which is one of the best ‘introductions’ to the topics I’ve […]
The Swedish Atheist, the Scuba Diver and the Straw Man
Last month Living Light News, an Edmonton-based newspaper, ran a review of my book The Swedish Atheist, the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetic Rabbit Trails. You can read it here: LLN MarApril 2013 Cover to Cover . Interestingly, the reviewer refers to me using a “straw man” argument. But then he spoke very positively of the […]
Yet another review of “Swedish Atheist”
The latest review of The Swedish Atheist, the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetic Rabbit Trails comes courtesy of David Hershey, blogger at “The Heart and Mind of David Hershey“. You can read David’s review here. David opens his review on a positive note: “If you only read one book on Christian apologetics this year, maybe […]
Another (favorable) review of “Swedish Atheist”
The third review of The Swedish Atheist was published a few days ago at the blog “Friar Tuck’s Fleeting Thoughts.” You can read it here: http://friartucksfleetingthoughts.blogspot.ca/2012/10/book-review-of-swedish-atheist-scuba.html Here’s an excerpt: “Several apologetics books will set up “straw men” and knock them down. Not so with this text. Instead, he often brings up arguments from Sheridan (the […]
J.P. Holding’s review of “The Swedish Atheist, the Scuba Diver, and Other Apologetic Rabbit Trails”
While I did not have a clear fix on who J.P. Holding was prior to yesterday, I had heard the occasional fleeting reference. So when I discovered that he had just reviewed The Swedish Atheist I read the review with some interest. In his opening he writes that the book is “a study of how emergents/postmoderns “do” […]
