Hardly a ringing endorsement for today’s christianity. He certainly never embraced any form of monotheism. I would say, based on Flew’s own words from his interview with Habermas, that the closest he got to theism was a panthiest/deist view a la Einstein. The inference being that somehow atheism isn’t a valid conclusion to hold any longer. There seems to be a certain amount of “dancing in the end zone” from christians over Flew’s change of position away from atheism. If you are ready to study some of the atheistic and theistic arguments that the brightest apologists for both viewpoints are presenting today, then this is the book for you! I thought the journey of discovery was fantastic and mind-expanding! The book also includes two appendices which address the current state of modern atheism, and an interview with N.T. I throughly appreciated the candor with which Flew shared his metamorphosis from atheist to Theist. This was not a book I could speed read, because the chain of logic in the arguments was simply too good to miss anything. The arguments are so nuanced and metaphysical at times, that it really requires a careful reading. This, I must warn you, is no easy reading.
The real meat-and-potatoes of the book are the arguments which helped change Anthony Flew’s mind. The one sentence summary of this book could be: Anthony Flew was a noted philosopher who concluded there was no God, but then was persuaded to rethink his position and came to a complete reversal. His book is called There Is A God: How the world’s most notorious atheist changed his mind. I made a mistake.” Anthony Flew is just such a strong man. It’s a mark of a strong, confident person that can admit, “I was wrong.
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