LEADER 03674nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910820176403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-35266-0 010 $a9786612352669 010 $a0-300-15564-6 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300155648 035 $a(CKB)2430000000010704 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050067 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000289375 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11911068 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000289375 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10401489 035 $a(PQKB)11291870 035 $a(DE-B1597)485454 035 $a(OCoLC)593321351 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300155648 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420502 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10348396 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235266 035 $a(OCoLC)923593930 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420502 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000010704 100 $a20080915d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAtheist delusions $ethe Christian revolution and its fashionable enemies /$fDavid Bentley Hart 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 243-249) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aChurch history$yPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600 606 $aCivilization, Western 606 $aChristianity$xInfluence 615 0$aChurch history 615 0$aCivilization, Western. 615 0$aChristianity$xInfluence. 676 $a909/.09821 700 $aHart$b David Bentley$01108877 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820176403321 996 $aAtheist delusions$93947946 997 $aUNINA