God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.

Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.

The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.

All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse that it is a minor miracle that they take place at all.

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate.