{"product_id":"atheist-delusions-the-christian-revolution-and-its-fashionable-enemies-9780300164299","title":"Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmong all the great transitions that have marked Western history, only one--the triumph of Christianity--can be called in the fullest sense a \"revolution\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cp\u003eHart 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/23\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300164299\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.22h x 6.14w x 0.65d","brand":"David Bentley Hart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43075419930805,"sku":"9780300164299","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_14bcab6d-b85e-43cd-aec4-56aae26248bb.jpg?v=1691465578","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/atheist-delusions-the-christian-revolution-and-its-fashionable-enemies-9780300164299","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}