2009, ISBN: 9780300111903

Yale University Press, April 2009. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. The recent bestselling broadsides of the 'new atheists'-e.g. Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, eve… Mehr…

Yale University Press, April 2009. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. The recent bestselling broadsides of the 'new atheists'-e.g. Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, even literary figures like Philip Pullman and Dan Brown-cause our author to long for Old Atheists, such as Diderot, Voltaire, Hume, Gibbon, and Nietzsche, all of whom Hart evokes as at least intellectually respectable. As such, he spends only a chapter or two dismissing the arguments of Dawkins and Co., directing his attention to the subtitle of this magnificent book. Along the way, he historically deconstructs the material evidence concerning the 'evils' of Christianity: intolerance, suppression of scientific progress, championing of ignorance. The Christian revolution with which Hart is fascinated concerns the radical and unprecedented nature of the Church's insistence on the infinite value of each human person in the context of the ancient world. Here, where women, slaves, and the common laborer counted as nothing, came a proclamation and a practice-especially in the Church's worship, care for the poor, and theology-that effectively annihilated distinctions of class, gender, and ethnicity. After considerations for early Christianity's lapses, its rise, triumph, and transformation of the Roman world are without parallel in the history of the West. Hart can pack more erudite content into nearly perfect sentences than almost any writer we know, and his chapter, 'The Face of the Faceless,' is a masterpiece, tempting us to predict an immortal brilliance within its setting to Dostoevsky's 'Grand Inquisitor' in the Brothers Karamazov. Sharp, solid copy, owner name & underlining present; VG jacket., Yale University Press, 2.75<

2009, ISBN: 0300111908

[EAN: 9780300111903], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Yale University Press April 2009], Jacket, The recent bestselling broadsides of the 'new atheists'-e.g. Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, C… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780300111903], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Yale University Press April 2009], Jacket, The recent bestselling broadsides of the 'new atheists'-e.g. Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, even literary figures like Philip Pullman and Dan Brown-cause our author to long for Old Atheists, such as Diderot, Voltaire, Hume, Gibbon, and Nietzsche, all of whom Hart evokes as at least intellectually respectable. As such, he spends only a chapter or two dismissing the arguments of Dawkins and Co., directing his attention to the subtitle of this magnificent book. Along the way, he historically deconstructs the material evidence concerning the 'evils' of Christianity: intolerance, suppression of scientific progress, championing of ignorance. The Christian revolution with which Hart is fascinated concerns the radical and unprecedented nature of the Church's insistence on the infinite value of each human person in the context of the ancient world. Here, where women, slaves, and the common laborer counted as nothing, came a proclamation and a practice-especially in the Church's worship, care for the poor, and theology-that effectively annihilated distinctions of class, gender, and ethnicity. After considerations for early Christianity's lapses, its rise, triumph, and transformation of the Roman world are without parallel in the history of the West. Hart can pack more erudite content into nearly perfect sentences than almost any writer we know, and his chapter, 'The Face of the Faceless,' is a masterpiece, tempting us to predict an immortal brilliance within its setting to Dostoevsky's 'Grand Inquisitor' in the Brothers Karamazov. Sharp, solid copy, owner name & underlining present; VG jacket., Books<

2009, ISBN: 9780300111903

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. xiv, 253pp. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with modest edgewear, and a tiny nick at the crown., Yale U… Mehr…

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. xiv, 253pp. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with modest edgewear, and a tiny nick at the crown., Yale University Press, 2009, 4.5<

2009, ISBN: 9780300111903

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Dustwrapper rubbed., Yale University Press, 2009, 3