Religion

Case of Conscience, A — James Blish

First published 1958. Arrow paperback, 1979, pp 208, c.73,000 words. This is surely unique amongst golden-age science fiction in being concerned with Roman Catholic doctrine.  There was considerable interest in literary fiction in the subject at that time, in the novels of Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh for example.  Blish opens his foreword with: ‘This […]

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Not In God’s Name — Jonathan Sacks

First published 2015.  Schocken Books, hardback, 2015, pp 305, c.85,000 words. Sacks was a senior orthodox Rabbi and prolific communicator on radio, in lectures and with many books.  In this book, he makes the case against religious justification for violence.  Unfortunately he doesn’t succeed.  He is concerned with the monotheistic Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity

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