Rupert Shortt

Rupert Shortt is a British author, biographer and journalist. He is known for writing about the modern persecution of Christians around the world, including in his book Christianophobia: A Faith Under Attack, and for a series of works defending the coherence of classical theism in general and a Christian world view in particular.

Rowan Williams wrote that Shortt's book God Is No Thing: Coherent Christianity "deserves a place alongside the best intelligent responses to the New Atheism."

Shortt is a Fellow Commoner of St Edmund's College, Cambridge and was religion editor of The Times Literary Supplement from 2000 to 2020.

Books

Rowan Williams: An Introduction (Darton, Longman and Todd, 2003) God’s Advocates: Christian Thinkers in Conversation (ed.) (Darton, Longman and Todd, 2005) Benedict XVI: Commander of the Faith (Hodder, 2005) Rowan's Rule: The Biography of the Archbishop (Hodder, 2008) Christianophobia: A Faith Under Attack (Rider, 2012) God Is No Thing: Coherent Christianity (Hurst, 2016) Does Religion Do More Harm than Good? (SPCK, 2019) Outgrowing Dawkins: God for Grown-Ups (SPCK, 2019) The Hardest Problem: God, Evil and Suffering (Hodder, 2022) The Eclipse of Christianity - and Why It Matters (Hodder, 2024)