Atheist delusions : the Christian revolution and its fashionable enemies /

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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 &qu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hart, David Bentley
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
30-600
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Civilization, Western.
Christianity > Influence.
Église > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
Civilisation occidentale.
Christianisme > Influence.
HISTORY > World.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology of Religion.
Christianity > Influence
Church history > Primitive and early church
Civilization, Western
Atheismus
Frühchristentum
Moderne
Rezeption
Religion > Controversial literature.
Fornkyrkan.
Polemik och apologetik.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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