Atheist Delusions; The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies

by David Bentley Hart

• ISBN13: 9780300111903
• ISBN10: 0300111908
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2009-04-21
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

Religious scholar Hart argues that contemporary antireligious polemics are based not only upon conceptual confusions but upon facile simplifications of history and provides a powerful antidote to the New Atheists' misrepresentations of the Christian past.

Author Biography

David Bentley Hart is visiting professor, Theology Department, Providence College, and author of several books, including In the Aftermath: Provocations and Laments and The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth. He lives in Providence, RI.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Faith, Reason, and Freedom: A View from The Present
The Gospel of Unbelief	p. 3
The Age of Freedom	p. 19
The Mythology of The Secular Age: Modernity's Rewriting of The Christian Past
Faith and Reason	p. 29
The Night of Reason	p. 36
The Destruction of the Past	p. 49
The Death and Rebirth of Science	p. 56
Intolerance and Persecution	p. 75
Intolerance and War	p. 88
An Age of Darkness	p. 99
Revolution: The Christian Invention of The Human
The Great Rebellion	p. 111
A Glorious Sadness	p. 129
A Liberating Message	p. 146
The Face of the Faceless	p. 166
The Death and Birth of Worlds	p. 183
Divine Humanity	p. 199
Reaction and Retreat: Modernity and The Eclipse of The Human
Secularism and Its Victims	p. 219
Sorcerers and Saints	p. 229
Notes	p. 243
Index	p. 251
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