Khari’s Reviews > God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics > Status Update

"The greatest [attempt at a minimal religion] was that simplification of Jewish and Christian traditions which we call Islam. But it retained many elements which Professor Price would regard as mythical and barbaric, and its culture is by no means one of the richest or most progressive."

"Mathematicians, astronomers and physicists are often religious, even mystical; biologists much less often; economists and psychologists very seldom indeed. It is as their subject matter comes nearer to man himself that their anti-religious bias hardens."

"We have not, in fact, proved that science excludes miracles: we have only proved that the question of miracles, like innumerable other questions, excludes laboratory treatment."

"Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others."

"Where the tide flows towards increasing State control, Christianity, with its claims in one way personal and in the other way ecumenical and both ways antithetical to omnicompetent government, must always be treated an enemy."

"We address people who have been trained to believe that whatever goes wrong in the world is someone else's fault-the Capitalists', the Government's, the Nazis', the Generals', etc. They approach God Himself as His judges. They want to know, not whether they can be acquitted for sin, but whether He can be acquitted for creating such a world."

Yes. He described the current age perfectly.

"It is not the books written in direct defense of Materialism that make the modern man a materialist; it is the materialistic assumptions in all the other books...It is not books on Christianity that will really trouble him. But he would be troubled if, whenever he wanted a cheap popular introduction to some science, the best work on the market was always by a Christian."

Alas, we have not heeded this advice.

"What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects-with their Christianity latent...Our faith is not very likely to be shaken by any book on Hinduism. But if whenever we read an elementary book on Geology, Botany, Politics, or Astronomy, we found that its implications were Hindu, that would shake us...

"Sentences beginning 'Science has now proven' should be avoided. If we try to base our apologetic on some recent development in science, we shall, usually find that just as we have put the finishing touches to our argument science has changed its mind and quietly withdrawn the theory we have been using as our foundation stone."