Atheist Delusions
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Atheist Delusions

The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Atheist Delusions

The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies

About this book

In this provocative book one of the most brilliant scholars of religion today dismantles distorted religious "histories" offered up by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and other contemporary critics of religion and advocates of atheism. David Bentley Hart provides a bold correction of the New Atheists’s misrepresentations of the Christian past, countering their polemics with a brilliant account of Christianity and its message of human charity as the most revolutionary movement in all of 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.

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Information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2009
eBook ISBN
9780300155648
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Atheism
18 
Faith, 
reason, 
and 
Freedom
the 
divine, 
fashioned 
for 
infinite 
love 
and 
imperishable 
glory, 
and 
as 
an 
almost 
inexhaustible 
wellspring 
of 
vindictiveness, 
cupidity, 
and 
brutality. 
Christians, 
indeed, 
have 
a 
special 
obligation 
not 
to 
forget 
how 
great 
and 
how 
inextinguishable 
the 
human 
proclivity 
for 
violence 
is, 
or 
how 
many 
victims 
it 
has 
claimed, 
for 
they 
worship 
a 
God 
who 
does 
not 
merely 
take 
the 
part 
of 
those 
victims, 
but 
who 
was 
himself 
one 
of 
them, 
murdered 
by 
the 
combined 
authority 
and 
moral 
prudence 
of 
the 
political, 
religious, 
and 
legal 
powers 
of 
human 
society.
Which 
is, 
incidentally, 
the 
most 
subversive 
claim 
ever 
made 
in 
the 
history 
of 
the 
human 
race.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction
  3. Part I. Faith, Reason, and Freedom: A View from the Present
  4. 1. The Gospel of Unbelief
  5. 2. The Age of Freedom
  6. Part II. The Mythology of the Secular Age: Modernity’s Rewriting of the Christian Past
  7. 3. Faith and Reason
  8. 4. The Night of Reason
  9. 5. The Destruction of the Past
  10. 6. The Death and Rebirth of Science
  11. 7. Intolerance and Persecution
  12. 8. Intolerance and War
  13. 9. An Age of Darkness
  14. Part III. Revolution: The Christian Invention of the Human
  15. 10. The Great Rebellion
  16. 11. A Glorious Sadness
  17. 12. A Liberating Message
  18. 13. The Face of the Faceless
  19. 14. The Death and Birth of Worlds
  20. 15. Divine Humanity
  21. Part IV. Reaction and Retreat: Modernity and the Eclipse of the Human
  22. 16. Secularism and Its Victims
  23. 17. Sorcerers and Saints
  24. Notes
  25. Index