God and the New Haven Railway

“This is a wonderful book with stunning insights. It is clear that O’Brien has thought deeply about God, the human condition, and religion. . . . O’Brien prefers to see God in the texture of weekdays, not in the spectacle of Sunday.” —National Catholic Reporter

“[George Dennis O’Brien] shows that theology can be written with panache and read with pleasure. . . . The great virtue of O’Brien’s book, which in a former day would have been called philosophical apologetics to the Gospel, is its tone—flippant, bantering, irreverent.” —Commonweal

“In God and the New Haven Railway [O’Brien] has wrought a delightful tour de force, in which he gazes with a philosopher’s eye, and a jaundiced one at that, upon the forces at work in individuals and communities that both generate and challenge religious commitments.” —Christian Century

“O’Brien . . . a remarkably nimble thinker, abandons the railway simile from time to time, but he is never at a loss for a clever figure of speech in this brief examination of the faded state of modern belief.” —Boston Globe