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Item #: 1111152
ISBN: 9781596985179
Author: Dinesh D'Souza
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 348
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A New York Times Bestseller!

Is Christianity obsolete? Can an intelligent, educated person really believe the Bible?

Or are atheists correct? Does science disprove Christianity, debunk it as a force for good, and discredit it as a guide to morality?

In his groundbreaking new book, What’s So Great About Christianity, bestselling author Dinesh D’Souza is the first to tackle these questions and challenge atheists on their own secular turf. Approaching atheism with the skeptical eye usually reserved for religion, D’Souza uses the latest scientific (among other) evidence to show why Christianity makes sense, why the atheists’ arguments are wrong, and why there really is something great about Christianity. What’s So Great About Christianity explains:

  • Why Christianity explains what modern science tells us about the universe and our origins—better than atheism does
  • How Christianity created the framework for modern science, so that Christianity and science are reconcilable, but atheism and science may not be
  • Why the alleged sins of Christianity—the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Galileo affair—are vastly overblown
  • Why atheist regimes are responsible for the greatest mass murders of history
  • Why evolution does not threaten Christian belief, but actually supports the “argument from design”
  • Why atheists fear the Big Bang theory and the “anthropic principle” of the universe, which are keystones of modern astronomy and physics
  • How Christianity explains consciousness and free will, which atheists have to deny

    By revealing the superiority of Christianity, D’Souza raises the culture war debate to a whole new level. What’s So Great About Christianity proves that Christianity and science are not at odds with each other; that atheism is philosophically, factually, and demographically bankrupt; and that a resurgent Christianity is the real wave of the future—and atheism a trend of the past.

    Table of Contents

    A Note on the Interpretation of Scripture
    Preface - A Challenge to Believers - and Unbelievers

    PART I: THE FUTURE OF CHRISTIANITY
    Chapter One: The Twilight of Atheism: The Global Triumph of Christianity
    Chapter Two: Survival of the Sacred: Why Religion is Winning
    Chapter Three: God is Not Great: The Atheist Assault on Religion
    Chapter Four: Miseducating the Young: Saving Children From Their Parents

    PART II: CHRISTIANITY AND THE WEST
    Chapter Five: Render Unto Caesar: The Spiritual Basis of Limited Government
    Chapter Six: The Evil That I Would Not: Christianity and Human Fallibility
    Chapter Seven" Created Equal: The Origin of Human Dignity

    PART III: CHRISTIANITY AND SCIENCE
    Chapter Eight: Christianity and Reason: The Theological Roots of Science
    Chapter Nine: From Logos to Cosmos: Christianity and the Invention of Invention
    Chapter Ten: An Atheist Fable: Reopening the Galileo Case

    PART IV: THE ARGUMENT FROM DESIGN
    Chapter Eleven: A Universe with a Beginning: God and the Astronomers
    Chapter Twelve: A Designer Planet: Man's Special Place in Creation
    Chapter Thirteen: Paley Was Right: Evolution and the Argument from Design
    Chapter Fourteen: The Genesis Problem: The Methodological Atheism of Science

    PART V: CHRISTIANITY AND PHILOSOPHY
    Chapter Fifteen: The World Beyond Our Senses: Kant and the Limits of Reason
    Chapter Sixteen: In the Belly of the Whale: Why Miracles Are Possible
    Chapter Seventeen: A Skeptic's Wager: Pascal and the Reasonableness of Faith

    PART VI: CHRISTIANITY AND SUFFERING
    Chapter Eighteen: Rethinking the Inquisition: The Exaggerated Crimes of Religion
    Chapter Nineteen: A License to Kill: Atheism and the Mass Murders of History

    PART VII: CHRISIANITY AND MORALITY
    Chapter Twenty: Natural Law and Divine Law: The Objective Foundations of Morality
    Chapter Twenty-One: The Ghost in the Machine: Why Man is More Than Matter
    Chapter Twenty-Two: The Imperial "I": When the Self Becomes the Arbiter of Morality
    Chapter Twenty-Three: Opiate of the Morally Corrupt: Why Unbelief is So Appealing
    Chapter Twenty-Four: The Problem of Evil: Where is Atheism When Bad Things Happen>

    PART VIII: CHRISTINITY AND YOU
    Chapter Twenty-Five: Jesus Among Other Gods: The Uniqueness of Christianity
    Chapter Twenty-Six: A Foretaste of Eternity: How Christianity Can Change Your Life

    Acknowledgments
    Notes
    Index

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