The God Delusion?

Does belief in God make sense? Or is it simply a delusion, a sad example of wish fulfilment on the part of lonely and longing human beings?

Although the ‘New Atheism’, which burst onto the scene in 2006, has now lost much of its novelty value, the questions it raised continue to be discussed. Is belief in God a rational response to reality, or an outmoded delusion, spread throughout the population by viruses of the mind, based on flimsy and naïve reasoning, and imposed by authoritarian institutions and individuals?

In this booklet, Alister McGrath considers the capacity of the Christian faith to fulfil our longing to make sense of things.