Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Life, Death and Authority: A Legislative History - Part One  2. Life, Death and Authority: A Legislative History - Part Two 3. The Law and Moral Values 4. Morality and Religion: Where Morality Comes From  5. The Spirit of Man Conclusion Index

Promotional Information

A powerful argument that religious and theological issues should have no place in public morality issues such as euthanasia, assisted suicide, and abortion.

About the Author

Mary Warnock is by professional training a philosopher. She has also been a prominent figure in education, first as a fellow and tutor in Philosophy at St Hugh's College, Oxford. She is the author of a number of books, most notably An Intelligent Person's Guide to Ethics.

Reviews

‘This sentinel of a secular state again takes up her post ... should give a minister, or a Miliband, plenty of piquant food for thought.'
*The Independent*

‘A fascinating contribution to one of the great debates of the day'
*Baptist Times*

'It is the patient accumulation of cases, histories and arguments in this book that is eventually more impressive than any mere polemic. We are shown the sovereignty of careful, compassionate, rich moral thought over law, over politics, and even, as Plato saw, over religion. In the end it is indeed dishonest - even dishonest to God - to think otherwise.'
*Times Higher Education*

‘Mary Warnock is one of the best-known philosophers in Britain. Few people could read this book without admiration for her style and scholarship.'
*The Baptist Times*

'An excellent antidote to religious complacency.'
*The Tablet*

Author Mary Warnock appeared on Start the Week.

[Mary Warnock displays an] interesting understanding of mankind's need for a higher level of imagination.
*The Good Bookstall*

‘This is a swashbuckling and iconoclastic book: Mary Warnock at her best.'
*Church of England Newspaper*

‘This is a wide-ranging book that covers the most diverse of subjects from philosophy and theology to music and church architecture written by someone who has reflected deeply and systematically on these issues over the course of a long life.'
*The Irish Catholic*

‘Plenty of Christian readers will find Dishonest to God challenging, but it deserves a close reading for its subtle appreciation of the complexities in the issues it tackles.'
*The Church Times*

Attended Hay Festival 2011

Reviewed in Contemporary Review, Volume 293, No. 1702.

Reviewed in Theology, Volume 114 No.6

Baroness Warnock's book is an excellent antidote to religious complacency.
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