{"id":2515,"date":"2007-05-08T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/05\/doug-wilson-and-christopher-hi.html"},"modified":"2007-05-08T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T12:22:00","slug":"doug-wilson-and-christopher-hi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/05\/doug-wilson-and-christopher-hi.html","title":{"rendered":"Doug Wilson and Christopher Hitchens debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christianity Today<\/a> is hosting a blog debate between atheist Christopher Hitchens and Doug Wilson. The topic they are debating is, “Is Christianity Good for the World?”<\/p>\n

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Douglas Wilson is author of <\/i>Letter from a Christian Citizen<\/a>, senior fellow of theology at New Saint Andrews College<\/i><\/a>, and minister at Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho. He is also the editor of <\/i>Credenda\/Agenda<\/a> magazine and has written (among other things <\/i>) Reforming Marriage<\/a> and <\/i>A Serrated Edge: A Brief Defense of Biblical Satire and Trinitarian Skylarking<\/a>. His Blog and Mablog<\/a> site inevitably makes for provocative reading<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Christopher Hitchens wrote<\/i>, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything<\/a>(Twelve Books<\/i><\/a>). Hitchens is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of liberal studies at the New School. He is the author of numerous books, includingNew Saint Andrews College<\/i>Thomas Jefferson: Author of America<\/a>, Thomas Paine’s “Rights of Man,”<\/a> Letters To a Young Contrarian<\/a>, and <\/i>Why Orwell Matters<\/a>. He was named, to his own amusement, number five on a list of the “Top 100 Public Intellectuals” by Foreign Policy and Britain’s Prospect<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Wilson has been critiquing Hitchens book on his blog<\/a> (chapter by chapter).<\/p>\n

Tags: Christopher Hitchens<\/a>, Douglas Wilson<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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