| Description |
xvii, 348 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-334) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface: A challenge to believers--and unbelievers -- Pt. 1: The future of Christianity. The twilight of atheism : the global triumph of Christianity ; Survival of the sacred : why religion is winning ; God is not great : the atheist assault on religion ; Miseducating the young : saving children from their parents -- Pt. 2: Christianity and the West. Render unto Caesar : the spiritual basis of limited government ; The evil that I would not : Christianity and human fallibility ; Created equal : the origin of human dignity -- Pt. 3: Christianity and science. Christianity and reason : the theological roots of science ; From logos to cosmos : Christianity and the invention of invention ; An atheist fable : reopening the Galileo case -- Pt. 4: The argument from design. A universe with a beginning : God and the astronomers ; A designer planet : man's special place in creation ; Paley was right : evolution and the argument from design ; The Genesis problem : the methodological atheism of science -- Pt. 5: Christianity and philosophy. The world beyond our senses : Kant and the limits of reason ; In the belly of the whale : why miracles are possible ; A skeptic's wager : Pascal and the reasonableness of faith -- Pt. 6: Christianity and suffering. Rethinking the Inquisition : the exaggerated crimes of religion ; A license to kill : atheism and the mass murders of history -- Pt. 7: Christianity and morality. Natural law and divine law : the objective foundations of morality ; The ghost in the machine : why man is more than matter ; The imperial "I" : when the self becomes the arbiter of morality ; Opiate of the morally corrupt : why unbelief is so appealing ; The problem of evil : where is atheism when bad things happen? -- Pt. 8: Christianity and you. Jesus among other gods : the uniqueness of Christianity ; A foretaste of eternity : how Christianity can change your life. |
| Subject |
Christianity -- Essence, genius, nature.
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| ISBN |
9781596985179 |
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1596985178 |
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