At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble
Alister E. McGrathAll the important things in life lie beyond reason... and that's just the way things are.
Alister E. McGrathSurely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.
Alister E. McGrathBeneath all the rhetoric about relevance lies a profoundly disturbing possibility - that people may base their lives upon an illusion, upon a blatant lie. The attractiveness of a belief is all too often inversely proportional to its truth... To allow "relevance" to be given greater weight than truth is a mark of intellectual shallowness and moral irresponsibility.
Alister E. McGrath