Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton is a literary critic and cultural theorist known for bringing philosophy, politics, and theology into direct conversation. Reason, Faith, and Revolution grew from his 2008 Dwight H. Terry Lectures at Yale and was published by Yale University Press. Across four lectures, Eagleton challenges arguments associated with Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens while also criticizing institutional forms of Christianity. The publisher places the book in The Terry Lectures Series and describes its range as extending from Thomas Aquinas and the Christian Gospel to modern politics and debates about belief. Eagleton's method combines close argument, historical reference, and polemic. The book therefore sits naturally within his wider work on ideology and culture while retaining the structure and urgency of a public lecture series.