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Albert Einstein letter about God goes for $3 million at auction

Albert Einstein letter about God goes for $3 million at auction

Nick Spencer is quoted in The Week’s coverage of the auction of Einstein’s ‘God letter’. 05/12/18

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Theos Senior Fellow, Nick Spencer, is quoted in The Week’s coverage of the sale of Einstein’s ‘God letter’ at Christie’s in New York this week.

“As so often during his life, he refused and disturbed the accepted categories,” Nick Spencer, a senior fellow at the Christian think tank Theos, told The Guardian. “We do the great physicist a disservice when we go to him to legitimize our belief in God, or in his absence.”

Read the full article here.  

Nick Spencer

Nick Spencer

Nick is Senior Fellow at Theos. He is the author of a number of books and reports, including Magisteria: the entangled histories of science and religion (Oneworld, 2023), The Political Samaritan: how power hijacked a parable (Bloomsbury, 2017), The Evolution of the West (SPCK, 2016) and Atheists: The Origin of the Species (Bloomsbury, 2014). He is host of the podcast Reading Our Times.

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Posted 5 December 2018

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