David Bentley Hart, a renowned theologian and philosopher, has accepted the challenge presented by the New Atheist ideals. In Hart’s publication, Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies he explains to the reader the falsehood of Atheism and how the rejection of Christianity has negatively impacted humanity. There are four themes that Hart uses to convey this message: Faith and reason in today’s society, Christianity’s influence and misunderstanding throughout the Middle Ages, Christianity’s attempt to shape present culture, and why the rejection of the peaceful religion will cause a negative impact. Within this explanation, both theologians and atheist philosophers are able to explore a true account of how
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This age expands from the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 A.D to the 1400s, more commonly known as the Renaissance. With the title of “dark,” it is often automatically assumed that the Dark Ages were counter productive, or an age where the only good that came from it was the ending of the era. The comical fact is that the Middle Ages are arguably one of the most important time periods to humanity. Humanity owes many advances, ideas, and institutions to this age: Universities, modern science, architecture, art and music. Universities allowed students to travel to renowned cities like Oxford, Paris, or Prague and learn to become a master or doctor in an assortment of fields with degree that would be recognized by all of Medieval Europe. Look at modern science. The world was viewed as an ordered whole, a principle derived from both Pagan thinkers and Christian doctrine, helping to show the world that a Christians understanding of the world was not just created from incompetent ideologist. Many of the new teachings of this time were not just explored by a single man who was more advanced then the rest of humanity. In fact, the idea that the earth orbited around the sun has been recorded in times before Copernicus. The view of ignorance and darkness of this era is continued within architecture, being the last explanation on advances given because it correlates with music and art in the same matter. Medieval artisans …show more content…
The noticeable difference that many anti-Christian arguers will point out is that a majority of wars fought during this period were due to religious conflict. Hart states, “The violence of early modernity was expressed nowhere more purely or on a grander scale than in the international and internecine conflicts of the period, which custom dictates should be called ‘the wars of religion.’ Given, though, the lines of coalition that defined these conflicts, and given their ultimate consequences, they ought really to be remembered as the first wars of the modern nation-state, whose principal purpose was to establish the supremacy of secular state authority over every rival power, most especially the power of the church… they were certainly not, at any rate, some sort of continuation of the ‘tradition’ of the Crusades (the only “holy wars” in Christian history).”(Hart 88) This view expresses the hidden view that Christianity holds true to its belief of a religion of peace. Throughout history there has roughly been 1800 wars. To debunk the secular argument that most of these wars are religious, only 7% of these wars arose due to a religious conflict and if you take out wars that Islam caused then only 3% would remain. This 3% encompasses all religions from the start of recorded time not just Christianity. The
This age expands from the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 A.D to the 1400s, more commonly known as the Renaissance. With the title of “dark,” it is often automatically assumed that the Dark Ages were counter productive, or an age where the only good that came from it was the ending of the era. The comical fact is that the Middle Ages are arguably one of the most important time periods to humanity. Humanity owes many advances, ideas, and institutions to this age: Universities, modern science, architecture, art and music. Universities allowed students to travel to renowned cities like Oxford, Paris, or Prague and learn to become a master or doctor in an assortment of fields with degree that would be recognized by all of Medieval Europe. Look at modern science. The world was viewed as an ordered whole, a principle derived from both Pagan thinkers and Christian doctrine, helping to show the world that a Christians understanding of the world was not just created from incompetent ideologist. Many of the new teachings of this time were not just explored by a single man who was more advanced then the rest of humanity. In fact, the idea that the earth orbited around the sun has been recorded in times before Copernicus. The view of ignorance and darkness of this era is continued within architecture, being the last explanation on advances given because it correlates with music and art in the same matter. Medieval artisans …show more content…
The noticeable difference that many anti-Christian arguers will point out is that a majority of wars fought during this period were due to religious conflict. Hart states, “The violence of early modernity was expressed nowhere more purely or on a grander scale than in the international and internecine conflicts of the period, which custom dictates should be called ‘the wars of religion.’ Given, though, the lines of coalition that defined these conflicts, and given their ultimate consequences, they ought really to be remembered as the first wars of the modern nation-state, whose principal purpose was to establish the supremacy of secular state authority over every rival power, most especially the power of the church… they were certainly not, at any rate, some sort of continuation of the ‘tradition’ of the Crusades (the only “holy wars” in Christian history).”(Hart 88) This view expresses the hidden view that Christianity holds true to its belief of a religion of peace. Throughout history there has roughly been 1800 wars. To debunk the secular argument that most of these wars are religious, only 7% of these wars arose due to a religious conflict and if you take out wars that Islam caused then only 3% would remain. This 3% encompasses all religions from the start of recorded time not just Christianity. The