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2009年03月25日
Good Books: There is a God by Antony Flew
The subtitle to this book is, "How the world's most notorious athiest changed his mind". I found it be fascinating reading. For 50 years Antony Flew preached and published the athiestic view of life. And yet, now, he has changed his mind and believes that there IS a God. How did this happen?
In the early 50s Flew was a member of the Socratic Club at Oxford, England. The chairman of the club was C.S. Lewis from 1942 to 1954. This club would meet every Monday evening and much of the time was taken up with athiests and Christians debating the problem of the existence of God. The moto of the club was the statement of Socrates: "We must follow the argument wherever it leads". This is what Antony Flew did and it took a lot of time but in the end it lead to him coming to believe in the existence of God.
Towards the end of the book he writes, "I must say again that the journey to my discovery of the Divine has thus far been a pilgrimage of reason. I have followed the argument where it has led me. And it has led me to accept the existence of a self-existent, immutable, immaterial, omnipotent, and omniscient Being".
C.S. Lewis used to say that an honest seeker of truth would always in the end be led to faith in God. It seems that Antony Flew was that type of seeker of truth and his honest seeking has led him to change his mind about something that he believed in strongly for 50 years.
I think this is a unique book and I recommend it highly-happy reading!
投稿者 bethany : 2009年03月25日 08:33
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