Author: Elaine Lynn
Elaine Lynn received her master’s degree in international relations from the University of Chicago. She currently devotes herself to the study of science, history, and philosophy. She is the secretary of the Secular Humanist Society of New York and leads its book club. She is also the host of the Atheist Book Club, an MNN cable television program produced in New York City by the New York City Atheists Library, available online at MNN.org.
Liberal Theology in the Modern West
The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics and the Modern West, by Mark Lilla (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4000-4367-5) 321 pp. Cloth $26.00. The “Stillborn God” of this fascinating and scholarly work is the God of the Enlightenment, God as conceived by liberal theology. The book places modern-day church-state issues in historical context and …