Atheist delusions: the christian revolution and its fashionable enemies

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. Butcontemporary 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. He outlines how Christianity transformed the ancient world in ways we may have forgotten: bringing liberation from fatalism, conferring greatdignity 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.

• ISBN: 978-0-300-16429-9
• Editorial: Yale University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 31/03/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés