Among all the great transitions that have marked Western history,
only one-the triumph of Christianity-can be called in the fullest
sense a "revolution" 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.
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