Can Theology Rebut the Attacks of the 'New Atheists'?

[Khandro]

Urged on by the likes of Richard Dawkins and others, telling the audience to "dare to use its common sense", the modern theologian and layman theist has to ask them to listen to some very large and strange ideas, and attempt to show that this issue is both interesting and resistant to simplistic certainties. Showing for example, that the God attacked by atheism is a modern construct produced by Enlightenment rationalism, and that previous theism remains untouched by such concepts.
Descartes being the key initiator of this modern conception which implies that God is an object of thought: a being who exists in the same way as other things exist. For pre-modern theology God was not a 'thing' at all, but as expressed by Aquinas ; God is transcendent, beyond our categories, something of which we can have no understanding.
With the insights of postmodernism, is not this earlier conception, not a freer one from the 'Idol-God' of the Enlightenment ?

[vetuste_ennemi]

There was nothing offensive about the PF post, Naomi. Khandrobluff simply referred to the Khandro post on AB and asked for DonLorenzo's comment. Forgive me for my (unintended) suggestion that you (or Birdie) have acted in any way badly.

[naomi24]

Vetuste, thank you, but no apology necessary. I simply wanted you - and everyone else - to know why any such suspicion is always going to be wrong.

[birdie1971]

Vetuste - “So Khandrobluff was you, Birdie; I thought it was Naomi.”

Yes, it was me. I'm not proud of it. In fact, I'm rather ashamed of myself for going at it like a bull in a china shop.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Thanks for your comments, Birdie. On consideration I've been a too flip about this myself. I add my apologies to Birdie's, Khandro.