Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution And Its Fashionable Enemies
by David Bentley Hart /
2009 / English / PDF
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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.
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.
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.
