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    The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World's Most Notorious Atheist
    The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World's Most Notorious Atheist
    The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World's Most Notorious Atheist
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    The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World's Most Notorious Atheist

    Written by Larry Alex Taunton

    Narrated by Maurice England

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    2016 Winner of the Gospel Coalition Book Awards

    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.  

    In The Faith of Christopher Hitchens, 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 two lengthy road trips where, after Hitchens’s diagnosis of esophageal cancer, they studied the Bible together.  The Faith of Christopher Hitchens gives us a candid glimpse into the inner life of this intriguing, sometimes maddening, and unexpectedly vulnerable man.

    “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

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateApr 12, 2016
    ISBN9780718080396
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    Larry Alex Taunton

    Larry Alex Taunton is Founder and Executive Director of Fixed Point Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to the public defense of the Christian faith. Fixed Point has captured the attention of BBC, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Fox News Network, The Christian Post, and many others. Taunton has personally engaged some of the most vociferous opponents of Christianity, including Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Peter Singer. He lives in Birmingham, AL.

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    • 4/5
      I am amazed at the small-minded 1 star reviews that the rabid personality cult followers of Hitchens have given this book. I am a Christian and would criticize the author myself if the claims levelled at him were true, but they are not. He does not try to claim Hitchens had a deathbed conversion nor does he disrespect Christopher in any way, so it makes me think that most of these negative critics never actually read or listened to this book.

      I was almost afraid to read this because I thought that Taunton may try to "put Hitchens in Heaven" the way the woman who called herself "Lady Hope" had tried to do with Charles Darwin. I was lead to believe he had done that or at least came close to doing so by the comments that Taunton's dishonest reviewers made about this book here and on various other sites.

      But what I found was a reasonable, thoughtful, respectful account of the experiences and opinions of the author about his relationship with Christopher Hitchens. That's what the book advertised and that's what the author delivered.

      But more than that, the book was almost painfully honest. Again, I am simply disgusted by those who say otherwise. I would guess that none of the detractors knew C.H. personally. Nor do they know the author. And the author is very careful to make sure you know when he's giving you something that is a matter of fact as compared to his own opinions, as well as when he is giving you Christopher's opinion as opposed to what he (the author) may think about Christopher's opinion.

      The bottom line is that I couldn't put this book down. I read it over a busy Memorial Day weekend and was short on spare time, but I used every second of it to devour this book.

      I loved Christopher Hitchens. I prayed for him before he announced his cancer diagnosis. I prayed for him until he passed away. I would have LOVED to have heard him repudiate his atheism and embrace Biblical Christianity. But I have no delusions about the fact that such did not happen. And Larry Alex Taunton (a man I do not know personally) gave me no reason to think otherwise.


      What Mr. Taunton did do was bring me to tears as I listened to his personal account of the last days of a man I cared for. I am thankful for this book. It doesn't cure my broken heart as I remember Christopher Hitchens. I wanted so badly to be able to call Christopher my brother in Christ. I wanted so badly to know that I would see him in Heaven.

      But this book did not promote such a notion except to say (as we Bible Christians say about ALL who die without having made a clear profession of faith) that we cannot know for sure what happened in the final moments of his life.

      My heart goes out to his brother Peter and to his family for the loss in this life and the next.

      If you cared for Christopher Hitchens on any level, I would highly recommend this book.

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    • 1/5
      Hitch warned of opportunists such as this author shortly before his death.

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    • 1/5
      Hitchens would likely get a good laugh at this pathetic and despicable attempt to put words in his mouth, when he is no longer alive to correct them. An opportunistic (and poorly written) attempt by the author to profit from the death of one of the greatest minds of our time. Skip it.