Atheist delusions: the Christian revolution and its fashionable enemies

Type

Book

Authors

David Bentley Hart ( Hart, David Bentley )

ISBN 10

0300164297

ISBN 13

9780300164299

DDC

239.7

Tags

Church History, Apologetics, Sociology, Atheism, Christianity (History), Social Science (Sociology of Religion)

Abstract

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.

Biblio Notes

Introduction
PART 1. Faith, reason, and freedom : a view from the present.
The gospel of unbelief
The age of freedom
PART 2. The mythology of the secular age : modernity's rewriting of the Christian past.
Faith and reason
The night of reason
The destruction of the past
The death and rebirth of science
Intolerance and persecution
Intolerance and war
An age of darkness
PART 3. Revolution : the Christian invention of the human.
The great rebellion
A glorious sadness
A liberating message
The face of the faceless
The death and birth of worlds
Divine humanity
PART 4. Reaction and retreat : modernity and the eclipse of the human.
Secularism and its victims
Sorcerers and saints.

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