(David) April's Harpers Monthly has an excerpt from The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions by David Berlinski. The book (from Crown Forum, a division of Random House) isn't available yet, but if the excerpt in Harpers is any indication, it promises to be a powerful indictment of scientific assumptions at the root of militant atheism.
Also, April's Atlantic Monthly contains a review of British Christian literary critic Ian Robinson's latest book, Untied Kingdom. Publisher of the book, Edgeways, has information on the book and its upcoming availability here. Unfortunately, the review isn't yet available on Atlantic's web site, but Robinson's thesis, that literary and linguistic decline precedes and produces coarsening of civilization, is certainly stimulating. My one worry on the basis of the review is that Robinson appears somewhat of a linguistic snob--he argues for the continued superiority of the KJV, an argument that can only be made on the basis of the literary inadequacy of modern translation, not on the basis of the KJV's usefulness as a means of training modern men and women in the Word of God.
