1. This chapter has been developed from an earlier article: Oliver Bennett (2012), ‘The Manufacture of Hope: Religion, Eschatology and the Culture of Optimism’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, vol 17, no 2, pp. 115–130.
2. Alistair McGrath (2007), Christian Theology: An Introduction, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, p. 447.
3. Steve Bruce (2002), God Is Dead: Secularization in the West, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, p. 32.
4. See Shandon L. Guthrie (1995), ‘Comparative Soteriology and Logical Incompatibility’,
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5. Paul Davies (1995), Are We Alone? Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, p. 85.