Reviewed in the Catholic Herald, 27th August 'Wonderful crowd-dividing meditations'

'The virtues of Cottingham's own thinking - a gracious, open minded integrity, and an ability to combine spiritual insight with philosophical analysis - enrich his defence of Christian practise and belief.'

Times Literary Supplement

'An important addition to the contemporary study of religion... Cottingham's book is a work of gentle persuasion towards belief and in practice towards belief in Christianity... There is thus in Cottingham's re-enchanting work as much to interest those who study religion as a phenomenon as there is for those who practise it or indeed reject it.'

Journal of Contemporary Religion

'Rigorously argued yet maximally accessible...a new and exciting perspective on the conflict between secularism and spirituality.'

Bulletin

'Why Believe? sees John Cottingham, a philosophy of searing intellectual honesty, examine our society's struggle with the concept of belief.'   

Bulletin

'John Cottingham's brief defence of religious faith, and especially Christian faith, is honest, clear-headed and occasionally compelling.'

Religious Studies