04195cam a2200697Ia 4500 ocn593321351 OCoLC 20200709055231.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 100402s2009 ctu ob 001 0 eng d N$T eng pn N$T IDEBK E7B OCLCQ YDXCP ELW OCLCQ JSTOR OCLCF COO OCLCO OCLCQ NLGGC OCL CDX EBLCP OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCO DEBSZ OCLCO OCLCQ 496961314 646860394 816341778 923593930 9780300155648 (electronic bk.) 0300155646 (electronic bk.) 0300111908 (cloth ; alk. paper) 9780300111903 (cloth ; alk. paper) 1282352660 9781282352667 9780300111903 (cloth ; alk. paper) (OCoLC)593321351 (OCoLC)496961314 (OCoLC)646860394 (OCoLC)816341778 (OCoLC)923593930 22573/ctt112dwd JSTOR BR162.3 .H37 2009eb HIS 037000 bisacsh HBG bicssc SOC039000 bisacsh REL004000 bisacsh REL015000 bisacsh 909/.09821 22 MAIN Hart, David Bentley. Atheist delusions [electronic resource] : the Christian revolution and its fashionable enemies / David Bentley Hart. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009. 1 online resource (xiv, 253 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-249) and index. 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. 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. --from publisher desciption. Print version record. Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. Civilization, Western. Christianity Influence. HISTORY World. bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE Sociology of Religion. bisacsh Christianity Influence. fast (OCoLC)fst00859619 Church history Primitive and early church. fast (OCoLC)fst01710945 Civilization, Western. fast (OCoLC)fst00863138 30 - 600 fast Electronic books. Print version: Hart, David Bentley. Atheist delusions. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009 9780300111903 (DLC) 2008040641 (OCoLC)150348383 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=302170 Coutts Information Services COUT 11415102 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL3420502 ebrary EBRY ebr10348396 EBSCOhost EBSC 302170 Ingram Digital eBook Collection IDEB 235266 YBP Library Services YANK 3135963 92 N$T 49649 49649