Atheist Delusions

The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies

By: David Bentley Hart

Narrated by: Ralph Morocco

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.

©2009 David Bentley Hart (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

Great... except for narration

Didnt like the over articulated, robotic bass boost narration, desperately barron of anything resembling inflection or emotion, but I suffered it for the fantastic writing of David B Hart.

Complex but not an easy listen

This is Grad School vocabulary, which the reader doesn't always pronounce correctly. Interesting information though.

Compelling Argument Torpedoed by Awful Narration

Hart’s arguments and his excoriation of the writings of the new atheists are engaging and entertaining. But not a minute will go by as you listen to this audiobook without a mispronunciation of a common word or name detailing your concentration and enjoyment. Perticular? Tee-ko Bra-hee? Bay-nal? Those are just three examples - I could cite dozens more. Did anyone listen to this before it was released? Hart certainly couldn’t have.

Excellent book, boring narrator

Turn the narration speed up to 1.25 for this to be tolerable. This book is an triumphant look back at the past of Christianity, how it changed the world's conscience forever and how that is now slipping away.

transformational genius

absolutely wonderful and engaging. a must read for any intellectual person of faith (I would highly recommend this as a graduate student)