The Revd Canon Dr Samuel Wells

What Makes Us Moral?

Apologetics

“In Roman times crowds were offered the spectacle of Christians being thrown to the lions. The outcome was never in doubt: what, presumably, provided the entertainment was the manner of the Christians' demise. Craig Hovey's masterful work offers the reader a different spectacle: the prospect of a lion being thrown to the Christians. How does the lion--in this case the atheist Sam Harris, who has made of science a religion--face his slow demise? That's the fascination of Hovey's absorbing piece-by-piece dissection. Hovey's work is a tour de force of Christian practical philosophy. It turns out Harris says many new things and many true things. But the new things he says are not true and the true things are not new. You won't want to miss a mouthful.”