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An edition of Atheist delusions (2009)

Atheist Delusions

the Christian revolution and its fashionable enemies

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Currently it is fashionable to be devoutly undevout. Religion's most passionate antagonists -- Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and others -- have publishers competing eagerly to market their various denunciations of religion, monotheism, Christianity, and Roman Catholicism. But contemporary antireligious polemics are based not only upon profound conceptual confusions but upon facile simplifications of history or even outright historical ignorance: so contends David Bentley Hart in this bold correction of the distortions. One of the most brilliant scholars of religion of our time, Hart provides a powerful antidote to the New Atheists' misrepresentations of the Christian past, bringing into focus the truth about the most radical revolution in Western history. Hart outlines how Christianity transformed the ancient world in ways we may have forgotten: bringing liberation from fatalism, conferring great dignity on human beings, subverting the cruelest aspects of pagan society, and elevating charity above all virtues. He then argues that what we term the "Age of Reason" was in fact the beginning of the eclipse of reason's authority as a cultural value. Hart closes the book in the present, delineating the ominous consequences of the decline of Christendom in a culture that is built upon its moral and spiritual values. - Jacket flap.

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Part one : Faith, reason, and freedom : a view from the present.
The gospel of unbelief
The age of freedom
Part two : The mythology of the secular age : modernity's rewriting of the Christian past.
Faith and reason
The night of reason
The destruction of the past
The death and rebirth of science
Intolerance and persecution
Intolerance and war
An age of darkness
Part three : Revolution : the Christian invention of the human.
The great rebellion
A glorious sadness
A liberating message
The face of the faceless
The death and birth of worlds
Divine humanity
Part four : Reaction and retreat : modernity and the eclipse of the human.
Secularism and its victims
Sorcerers and saints

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New Haven, CT, London
Copyright Date
2009

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Library of Congress
BR162.3 .H37 2009, BR162.3.H37 2009

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xiv, 253 p.
Number of pages
320
Dimensions
25 x x centimeters

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Open Library
OL10319187M
Internet Archive
atheistdelusions00hart
ISBN 10
0300111908
ISBN 13
9780300111903
LCCN
2008040641
OCLC/WorldCat
150348383
Library Thing
1142400
Goodreads
863971

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