What's So Great About Christianity

by D'Souza, Dinesh

• ISBN13: 9781596985179
• ISBN10: 1596985178
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-16
• Publisher: Salem Books

Summary

In a world of facts and figures, can an intellectual have faith? Is it possible to believe anything the Bible says? Yes, and one man will show you how.

Amidst scientists’ attempts to debunk Christianity’s truths and atheists’ assuming the Bible is a how-to-be-virtuous self-help book, bestselling author Dinesh D’Souza resolves to both answer the tough questions and challenge believers as well as doubters to search for the ultimate truths about theories of origin. D’Souza tackles subjects and events such as the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition, the Big Bang theory and Darwinism—everything you always pondered but never scrutinized, now placed under the proverbial microscope and studied thoroughly.

Author Biography

Dinesh D'Souza has had a prominent career as a writer, scholar, public intellectual, and filmmaker. Born in India, D’Souza came to the U.S. as an exchange student at the age of 17 and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College. The author of many bestselling books including America, The Big Lie, Death of a Nation, and United States of Socialism. He is also the creator of three of the top ten highest-grossing political documentaries ever made.

Table of Contents

A Note on the Interpretation of Scripture	p. xi
Preface: A Challenge to Believers-and Unbelievers	p. xiii
The Future of Christianity
The Twilight of Atheism: The Global Triumph of Christianity	p. 1
Survival of the Sacred: Why Religion Is Winning	p. 13
God Is Not Great: The Atheist Assault on Religion	p. 21
Miseducating the Young: Saving Children from Their Parents	p. 31
Christianity and the West
Render unto Caesar: The Spiritual Basis of Limited Government	p. 41
The Evil That I Would Not: Christianity and Human Fallibility	p. 55
Created Equal: The Origin of Human Dignity	p. 67
Christianity and Science
Christianity and Reason: The Theological Roots of Science	p. 83
From Logos to Cosmos: Christianity and the Invention of Invention	p. 91
An Atheist Fable: Reopening the Galileo Case	p. 101
The Argument from Design
A Universe with a Beginning: God and the Astronomers	p. 115
A Designer Planet: Man's Special Place in Creation	p. 127
Paley Was Right: Evolution and the Argument from Design	p. 139
The Genesis Problem: The Methodological Atheism of Science	p. 155
Christianity and Philosophy
The World Beyond Our Senses: Kant and the Limits of Reason	p. 167
In the Belly of the Whale: Why Miracles Are Possible	p. 179
A Skeptic's Wager: Pascal and the Reasonableness of Faith	p. 191
Christianity and Suffering
Rethinking the Inquisition: The Exaggerated Crimes of Religion	p. 203
A License to Kill: Atheism and the Mass Murders of History	p. 213
Christianity and Morality
Natural Law and Divine Law: The Objective Foundations of Morality	p. 225
The Ghost in the Machine: Why Man Is More Than Matter	p. 239
The Imperial "I": When the Self Becomes the Arbiter of Morality	p. 251
Opiate of the Morally Corrupt: Why Unbelief Is So Appealing	p. 261
The Problem of Evil: Where Is Atheism When Bad Things Happen?	p. 273
Christianity and You
Jesus among Other Gods: The Uniqueness of Christianity	p. 283
A Foretaste of Eternity: How Christianity Can Change Your Life	p. 293
Acknowledgments	p. 305
Notes	p. 307
Index	p. 335
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