In this book, John Habgood explores the reasons - intellectual, cultural and temperamental - for religious unbelief. Looking at the views expressed by a number of novelists, scientists and philosophers, he shows why the present-day culture of scepicism can seem so plausible, and how both believers and non-believers can benefit from mutual criticism.

The author warns against mistaken attempts to argue for religious belief on the basis of secualr disciplines. The Christian faith is irreducibly historical and God is irreducibly personal - there is not, nor has there ever been, only one way to express truth about God.