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Wilson studied theology at Oxford and was preparing to become an Anglican priest. He left and converted to Roman Catholicism, eventually returning to Anglicanism and finally declaring himself an atheist or agnostic. He shows a complicated attitude towards Christianity in his writing, which doesn't exclude some residual affection.

Wilson's also a novelist and writes a column for the London Daily Telegraph on Mondays. If you want to know what he's thinking that's as good a place as any to find out. Whatever one thinks of his views, he is pretty smart guy, though he can be opinionated in the way of a lot of Englishmen.

"In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by being learned." -- A.N. Wilson

[yankeedame]

Thanks for the head's up. Right now I am reading his book "After the Victorians", and I must confess it's one of the most peculiar books I have read in some time. Reading it is like eating cold popcorn. You don't really like it, but you find yourself reaching for more.

That's why I was on Amazon, to look up some of the other things he had written. And, yes, I saw he did the piece (or should I say "a number"?) on C.S. Lewis. The reader/reviewers had their coup knives out, that's for sure.

Also, thanks to one and all for suggestion on other books on this subject. I know I need to start reading more "Bible-as-History" type books...hence my post.