The Faith of Christopher Hitchens

<p><strong><strong>2016 Winner of the Gospel Coalition Book Awards</strong></strong></p><p><strong>A friend of the late Christopher Hitchens offers insight about the promise of faith and the dangers of pride in this one-of-a-kind look into the last days of the world's most famous atheist--now in paper back.</strong></p><p>If everyone in the United States had the same qualities of loyalty and care and concern for others that Larry Taunton had we'd be living in a much better society than we do. Christopher Hitchens</p><p>At the time of his death Christopher Hitchens was the most notorious atheist in the world. And yet all was not as it seemed. Nobody is not a divided self of course he once told an interviewer but I think it's rather strong in my case. Hitchens was a man of many contradictions: a Marxist in youth who longed for acceptance among the social elites; a peacenik who revered the military; a champion of the Left who was nonetheless pro-life pro-war-on-terror and after 9/11 something of a neocon; and while he railed against God on stage he maintained meaningful--though largely hidden from public view--friendships with evangelical Christians like Francis Collins Douglas Wilson and the author Larry Alex Taunton. </p><p>In <em>The Faith of Christopher Hitchens</em> Taunton offers a very personal perspective of one of our most interesting and most misunderstood public figures. Writing with genuine compassion and without compromise Taunton traces Hitchens's spiritual and intellectual development from his decision as a teenager to reject belief in God to his rise to prominence as one of the so-called Four Horsemen of the New Atheism. While Hitchens was in the minds of many Christians Public Enemy Number One away from the lights and the cameras a warm friendship flourished between Hitchens and the author; a friendship that culminated in not one but <em>two</em> lengthy road trips where after Hitchens's diagnosis of esophageal cancer they studied the Bible together. <em>The Faith of Christopher Hitchens </em>gives us a candid glimpse into the inner life of this intriguing sometimes maddening and unexpectedly vulnerable man.</p><p>This book should be read by every atheist and theist passionate about the truth.</p><p>--Michael Shermer publisher <em>Skeptic</em> magazine</p>