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The New Dark Age: Why liberals must win the culture wars by Nigel Biggar

The New Dark Age: Why liberals must win the culture wars by Nigel Biggar

Nick Spencer reviews ‘The New Dark Age’ by Nigel Biggar for the Church Times. 13/02/2026

”The New Dark Age, which, although short, bristles with examples of academic vices and institutional weaknesses.”

Nick Spencer reviews ‘The New Dark Age: Why liberals must win the culture wars’ by Nigel Biggar for the Church Times.

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Nick Spencer

Nick Spencer

Nick is Senior Fellow at Theos. He is the author of The Landscapes of Science and Religion (OUP, 2025), Playing God: Science, Religion and the Future of Humanity (2024), and Magisteria: the entangled histories of science and religion (Oneworld, 2023). Nick is host of the podcast Reading Our Times.

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Posted 13 February 2026

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