From Christian to Atheist & Back Again.
My attention was drawn today to this rather stunning piece on Atheism & conversion in The New Statesman which you can read for yourself here . Its author is A. N. Wilson, an English writer and newspaper columnist, known for his critical biographies, novels, works of popular history. In the early 1990s, Wilson stated publicly that he was an Atheist and published a pamphlet Against Religion in the Chatto & Windus CounterBlasts series; however, religious and ecclesiological themes continue to inform his work. He claims to have lost his Christian beliefs while working on his 1990 biography of C.S. Lewis. For nearly 20 years he continued to be both a sceptic, and a prominent atheist. It was during his period of nonbelief that he wrote biographies of Jesus, St. Paul, and a history of atheism in the 19th century entitled God's Funeral, the latter describing the growth of atheism as due to combination of many influences ranging from David Hume to Sigmund Freud. Thes...