1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910710735203321

Autore

Torres Ferrer Jose A

Titolo

Selected laboratory and measurement practice and procedures for length calibrations (2014 Ed) / / Jose A. Torres Ferrer; Georgia L. Harris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gaithersburg, MD : , : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, , 2014

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

NISTIR ; ; 8028

Altri autori (Persone)

HarrisGeorgia L

Torres FerrerJose A

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Contributed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes.

October 2014.

Title from PDF title page.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780793903321

Autore

Hart David Bentley

Titolo

Atheist delusions : the Christian revolution and its fashionable enemies / / David Bentley Hart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-35266-0

9786612352669

0-300-15564-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Disciplina

909/.09821

Soggetti

Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600

Civilization, Western

Christianity - Influence

Atheism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-249) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Faith, reason, and freedom : a view from the present -- The gospel of unbelief -- The age of freedom -- 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 -- 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 -- Reaction and retreat : modernity and the eclipse of the human -- Secularism and its victims -- Sorcerers and saints.

Sommario/riassunto

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's 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.