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Francis Spufford's Unapologetic is a wonderfully pugnacious defense of Christianity. Refuting critics such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the ""new atheist"" crowd, Spufford, a former atheist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, argues that Christianity is recognizable, drawing on the deep and deeply ordinary vocabulary of human feeling, satisfying those who believe in it by offering a ruthlessly realistic account of the grown-up dignity of Christian experience. Fans of C. S. Lewis, N. T. Wright, Marilynne Robinson, Mary Karr, Diana Butler Bass, Rob Bell, and James Martin will appreciate Spufford's crisp, lively, and abashedly defiant thesis. Unapologetic is a book for believers who are fed up with being patronized, for non-believers curious about how faith can possibly work in the twenty-first century, and for anyone who feels there is something indefinably wrong, literalistic, anti-imaginative and intolerant about the way the atheist case is now being made.

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Spufford exhibits his trademark brilliance, humor, and acumen, demolishing the intellectual emptiness of the New Atheism along the way. Richly rewarding to mind and heart, and a fine example of one of the era's best writers at full tilt. --Library Journal

Catnip for atheists, agnostics, believers, disbelievers and people who like to think and wonder. --Chicago Tribune A remarkable book, which is passionate, challenging, tumultuously articulate, and armed with anger to a degree unusual in works of Christian piety. --Sunday Times (London) A subtle, witty, clever writer. --The Observer Francis Spufford is one of the cleverest and most thoughtful nonfiction writers in England....Unapologetic is exactly what those who've followed Spufford's career might have suspected it would be: an incredibly smart, challenging, and beautiful book, humming with ideas and arguments. --Nick Hornby Fresh, lively, provocative, insightful, articulate, witty, scabrous, honest, shocking, profane, Christian. --James Martin, S.J., author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything Mr. Spufford is an amused and amusing observer of human beings, and it is a pleasure to be in his company. --Dwight Garner, The New York Times Spufford's defense of Christianity is as unique as it is refreshing....With unrelenting passion and honesty throughout, this book successfully accomplishes what it sets out to achieve--namely, making the case for the intelligibility and dignity of Christian faith. --Booklist The man writes like a dream. --The Guardian The point...is to show those on the fence that belief need not mean the abandonment of intelligence, wit, emotional honesty. In this, Francis Spufford succeeds to an exceptional degree. --London Times Literary Supplement This is a wonderful, effortlessly brilliant book. --Evening Standard (London)

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Francis Spufford, a former Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year (1997), has edited two acclaimed literary anthologies and a collection of essays about the history of technology. His first book, I May Be Some Time, won the Writers' Guild Award for Best Non-Fiction Book of 1996, the Banff Mountain Book Prize, and a Somerset Maugham Award. His second, The Child That Books Built, gave Neil Gaiman ""the peculiar feeling that there was now a book I didn't need to write."" His third book, Backroom Boys, was called ""as nearly perfect as makes no difference"" by the Daily Telegraph, and Red Plenty was one of Dwight Garner's New York Times 10 Favorite Books of 2012. Spufford is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and teaches at Goldsmiths College in London.

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