Atheist Delusions
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Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies is a 2009 book by theologian, philosopher, and cultural commentator David Bentley Hart. The book explores many of the historical and popular misconceptions of Christianity's detractors.
Hart's thesis is that Christianity transformed the ancient world by:
- bringing liberation from fatalism
- conferring dignity on humans
- making charity the greatest of the virtues
The so-called Age of Reason was, he argues, "the beginning of the eclipse of reason’s authority as a cultural value". Hart concludes by warning of the effcts on our culture of a continued decline of Christian spiritual and moral values.
Atheist Delusions was published on 21 April 2009.
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Further Information
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300111903