Books Responding to the New Atheists

• • Alister McGrath's The Dawkins Delusion? (2007)
  • John F. Haught's God and the New Atheism: A Critical Response to Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens (2007)
  • Keith Ward's Is Religion Dangerous? (2007)
  • Douglas Wilson's Letter from a Christian Citizen (2007)
  • R.C. Metcalf's Letter to a Christian Nation: Counter Point (2007)
  • Thomas Crean's God is No Delusion: A Refutation of Richard Dawkins (2007)
  • David Robertson's The Dawkins Letters: Challenging Atheist Myths (2007)
  • Dinesh D'Souza's What's So Great about Christianity (2008)
  • Chris Hedges' I Don't Believe in Atheists (2008)
  • Edward Feser's The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism (2008)
  • Eric Reitan's Is God A Delusion: A Reply to Religion's Cultured Despisers (2008)
  • Scott Hahn's and Benjamin Wilker's Answering the New Atheism: Dismantling Dawkins' Case Against God (2008)
  • Tina Beattie's The New Atheists: The Twilight of Reason and the War on Religion (2008)
  • Edgar Andrew's Who Made God? Searching for a Theory of Everything (2009)
  • Keith Ward's Why There Almost Certainly Is a God: Doubting Dawkins (2009)
  • David Berlinki's The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions (2009)
  • Paul Copan's and William Lane Craig's Contending with Christianity's Critics (2009)
  • Terry Eagleton's Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate (2009)
  • William Lane Craig's and Chad Meister's God is Great, God is Good (2009)
  • Gregory E. Ganssle's A Reasonable God: Engaging the New Face of Atheism  (2009)
  • David Bentley Hart's Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies (2009)
  • David Fergusson's Faith and Its Critics: A Conversation (2009)
  • Phil Fernandes' The Atheist Delusion (2009)
  • Phillip E. Johnson's and John Mark Reynolds' Against All Gods (2010)
  • Ian S. Markham's Against Atheism: Why Dawkins, Hitchens, and Harris Are Fundamentally Wrong (2010)
  • Peter Hitchens' The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me to Faith (2010)
  • Michael Poole's The 'New' Atheism: 10 Arguments That Don't Hold Water (2010)
  • David Brog's In Defense of Faith: The Judeo-Christian Idea and the Struggle for Humanity (2010)
  • Dave Hunt's Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny (2010)

There were, of course, many other significant contributions to the God and religion debate in the last decade. This list represents only those works explicity responsive to the New Atheist challenge. Our book stacks include a wealth of volumes of a less occasional nature, many of which are likely to have more enduring influence. No doubt, the many volumes here vary in quality and I've read only a fraction. Bolded items are volumes I can vouch for as worthy of consideration. It turns out that Richard Dawkins' compatriots maintain their own list of critical works, referring to these critics as "fleas" — endearingly, no doubt.

Articles

As I remember and rediscover them, I'll be adding a list of online articles as well. Critics here include both theists and non-theists.

• • "The Dawkins Confusion" by Alvin Plantinga at ChristianityToday.com (Mar 3, 2007)
  • "The New Atheist Movement is Destructive" by Julian Baggini at Fritanke.no (Mar 19, 2009).
  • "Why I Think the New Atheists are a Bloody Disaster" by Michael Ruse at Belief.net (Aug 14, 2009).
  • Six reflections in Marginalia, by yours truly, here at Afterall.net.
  • "The Moral Indignation of Richard Dawkins" by Paul Copan at Parchment and Pen (Mar 20, 2008).
  • "Daniel Dennett Hunts the Snark" by David Bentley Hart at First Things (Jan 2007).