Further Reading and ReferencesDenys Turner’s lecture ‘How to Be an Atheist’ is in his collected talks
Faith Seeking, published by SCM Press (2002).
Philosophy: The Latest Answers to the Oldest Questions, by Nicholas Fearn,
is published by Atlantic Books (2005).
Herbert McCabe is quoted in The Thought of Thomas Aquinas, by Brian
Davies, published by Clarendon Paperbacks (1993), page 111.
Karen Armstrong discusses her ideas on logos and myth in The Battle for
God (see above). A concise version is in A Short History of Myth, pub-
lished by Canongate (2005): see page 122 for quote.
Serious Concerns, by Wendy Cope, is published by Faber and Faber
(1992).
Disciplining the Divine: The Failure of the Social Model of the Trinity, by
Paul Fletcher, is published by Ashgate (2009).
No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam, by Reza
Alsan, is published William Heinemann (2005), see page 263 for
quote.
6. Christian Agnosticism: Learned Ignorance
The story about Thomas Aquinas is in Brian Davies’ The Thought of
Thomas Aquinas (see above).
Wittgenstein made his comments about the aroma of coffee in his
Philosophical Investigations (610), and on the unutterable in a letter
to a friend, Paul Engelmann, in 1917. They are discussed in Theology
after Wittgenstein by Fergus Kerr published by Basil Blackwell (1986) in
Chapter 7 ‘Wittgenstein’s Theological Investigations’.
Gregory of Nyssa writes about Moses in his The Life of Moses.
De docta ignorantia, by Nicholas of Cusa, is available online. This quote
comes in Chapter 1, ‘How it is that knowing is not-knowing’.
The quote from Meister Eckhart is from his sermon XCIX, available in
various collected works.
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume is published by
Oxford Paperbacks (2008)
The Unknown God: Agnostic Essays, by Anthony Kenny, is published by
Continuum (2004), with his refl ections on Arthur Hugh Clough’s
poem in Chapter 1, ‘The Ineffable Godhead’: see page 20 for the
quote. Chapter 8 compares Clough and Arnold.
Dennis Potter made his remark about religion as wound in a fi nal inter-
view he gave to Melvyn Bragg broadcast by Channel 4 on 5 April
1994.
T.H. Huxley’s refl ections were in a review of Agnosticism published in the
Times Literary Supplement of Friday, 27 February 1903.