Why I Am Not a Christian

By Bertrand Russell

Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality

Why I Am Not a Christian (1957, Simon & Schuster) collects Bertrand Russell's writing on faith, edited by philosopher Paul Edwards. It opens with the title lecture, delivered at Battersea Town Hall in 1927 for the National Secular Society, in which Russell examines the arguments for God and the moral teaching of Christ. Further essays take up immortality, sexual ethics, education and freedom of thought, and an appendix recounts the 1940 case that barred Russell from teaching at the City College of New York.

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