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Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies
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by David Bentley Hart

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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.

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Among all the great transitions that have marked Western history, only one--the triumph of Christianity--can be called in the fullest sense a "revolution"

"Hart has the gifts of a good advocate. He writes with clarity and force, and he drives his points home again and again. He exposes his opponents' errors of fact or logic with ruthless precision."--Anthony Kenny, Times Literary Supplement

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' 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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  • Title Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies
  • Author David Bentley Hart
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 268
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven
  • Publication date 2010-02-23
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780300164299 / 0300164297
  • Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.22 x 6.14 x 0.65 in (23.42 x 15.60 x 1.65 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Category Religion - Church History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 909.098

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David Bentley Hart is the author of several books, including In the Aftermath: Provocations and Laments and The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth.

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