May 08, 2009

Books

The Transfigured World

Atheist DelusionsThe Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable EnemiesDavid Bentley HartYale University Press, $28, 253 pp.

William L. Portier

When St. Peter heard the cock crow early on the morning of the first Good Friday, the synoptic Gospels tell us that he went out and wept bitterly. “We are the heirs of a culture that, in a sense, sprang from Peter’s tears,” writes David Bentley Hart in his new book, Atheist Delusions. The pathos of this gospel scene would have been invisible to the late antique moral sens (...)


 

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