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008 080915s2009 ctu b 001 0 eng
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020 _a0300111908 (cloth : alk. paper)
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092 _a909.0982
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100 1 _aHart, David Bentley.
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245 1 0 _aAtheist delusions :
_bthe Christian revolution and its fashionable enemies /
_cDavid Bentley Hart.
246 3 0 _aChristian revolution and its fashionable enemies
260 _aNew Haven :
_bYale University Press,
_cc2009.
300 _axiv, 253 p. ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 243-249) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction -- 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.
520 _aHart 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
650 0 _aChristianity
_xInfluence.
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650 0 _aChurch history
_yPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
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650 0 _aCivilization, Western.
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