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Reading Group

God is Dead and I Don’t Feel So Good Myself

Readings for Friday, February 3:

  • Long, “Forward”
  • Candler, “‘God is Dead’ and I Don’t Feel So good Myself” (Chapter 10)
  • Kuipers, “The New Atheism and the Spiritual Landscape of tte West: An Interview with Charles Taylor” (Chapter 14)
  • (optional) Rauser, “Worshipping a Flying Teapot? What To Do When Christianity Looks Ridiculous” (Chapter 15)

    • In conjunction with the series of presentations on the “new atheism” the Christian Study Center will also be hosting a reading group drawn principally from a collection of essays entitled “God is Dead” and I Don’t Feel So Good Myself (Wipf and Stock, 2010). The editors of this collection aim to avoid the vitriol that so often accompanies the topic while still offering substantive critique. Their aim is to look “at the key issues of our day in light of the vast resources of the Christian tradition and look at our Christian tradition in light of the key issues of our day.” This reading group will meet on each of the Fridays following the four Thursday evening presentations. Copies of “God is Dead” and I Don’t Feel So Good Myself are available through your favorite bookseller and a copy is always available on the shelves at the top of the stairs in Pascal’s Coffeehouse at the Christian Study Center.

    Led by Fred Gregory
    Fridays, period six (12:50-1:40)
    February 3, March 2 and 30, and April 13
    Open to the general public.

    Every semester the Study Center offers a reading group that explores either important works of historic and contemporary Christian thought or works of scholarship that explore contemporary social change. The group typically meets monthly over lunch at the Study Center.

    Recent authors and books that this group has read include:

    • Louis Menand, The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University (Harvard, 2010)
    • George Marsden, The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship (Oxford, 1998)
    • Classics of Christian Thought
    • G. K. Chesterton
    • T. S. Eliot
    • Flannery O’Connor
    • Walker Percy
    • Dorothy Sayers
    • Studies and reflections on contemporary culture
    • David Brooks, Bobos in Paradise (Simon and Schuster, 2001)
    • Stephen Prothero, American Jesus (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004)
    • Wendell Berry, Life is a Miracle (Counterpoint Press, 2001)

    “We have to look in much of the fiction of our time for a kind of sub-religion which expresses its ultimate concern in images that have not yet broken through to show any recognition of a God who has revealed himself.”

    Flannery O'Connor