Reason, Faith and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate
By Terry Eagleton
Yale University Press £18.99, 200 pages
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Terry Eagleton is that rare thing, a God-fearing Marxist. Given what Karl Marx had to say about religion, this is a little like being a Freudian who’s indifferent about his mother. To maintain such a stance takes a great subtlety of mind and a rather slippery idea of the difference between fact and fiction – both traits much on display in Eagleton’s new book Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate.