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'''''Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and its Fashionable Enemies''''' (Yale University Press, 2009) is a work by the [[theologian]] and [[philosopher]] [[David Bentley Hart]] which challenges the denunciation of religion by [[atheistic]] authors such as [[Richard Dawkins]], [[Christopher Hitchens]] and [[Sam Harris]]. In it, Hart argues that their polemics are based on "facile simplifications of history" and "outright historical ignorance", misrepresenting the [[Christian]] past.
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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:
 
Hart's thesis is that Christianity transformed the ancient world by:

Revision as of 21:13, December 16, 2015

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:

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.

See also

Further Information

http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300111903

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