Atheist Delusions
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Atheist Delusions

The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies

David Bentley Hart

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Atheist Delusions

The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies

David Bentley Hart

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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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Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9780300155648
Edition
1
Topic
Theologie & Religion
Subtopic
Atheismus
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.

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