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Posted on Thu 15 April 2010
Standpoint: Prodigal Brother
Peter Hitchens takes us on a breathless journey through the landscape of modern ideologies and the decline of Christianity in the Western world. The genre here is of “confessions” such as Apologia Pro Vita Sua of the soon-to-be-beatified John Henry Newman. This is a genuine story of a conversion, of someone who has long neglected, indeed rejected, religion, coming around to a Christian worldview as the most satisfying account of the cosmos and of our selves. The book can also be read as a continuing debate with his militantly atheist brother, Christopher, even though there are protestations throughout the book that he does not wish to debate publicly again with him.