2010, ISBN: 9780300164299

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”   “Hart has the gifts of a good ad… Mehr…

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”   “Hart has the gifts of a good advocate. He writes with clarity and force, and he drives his points home again and again. He exposes his opponents’ errors of fact or logic with ruthless precision.”—Anthony Kenny, Times Literary Supplement   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’ 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. Books David Bentley Hart|Paperback|Yale University Press|23/02/2010, Yale University Press<

2010, ISBN: 9780300164299

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… Mehr…

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. Books David Bentley Hart|Paperback|Yale University Press|23/02/2010, Yale University Press<

2010, ISBN: 9780300164299

Yale University Press, Paperback, Auflage: First Edition, 272 Seiten, Publiziert: 2010-02-26T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.35 kg, Verkaufsrang: 355619, Books Global Store, Special Fea… Mehr…

Yale University Press, Paperback, Auflage: First Edition, 272 Seiten, Publiziert: 2010-02-26T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.35 kg, Verkaufsrang: 355619, Books Global Store, Special Features, Books, World History, History, Subjects, Church History, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Agnosticism & Atheism, Other Religions, Reference, History & Philosophy, Science, Nature & Maths, Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences, Yale University Press, 2010<

ISBN: 9780300164299

Paperback / softback. New. Outlines how Christianity transformed the ancient world in ways we may have forgotten: bringing liberation from fatalism, conferring great dignity on human bei… Mehr…

Paperback / softback. New. 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., 6<