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David Bentley Hart on Atheist Delusions

Tags: Age of Reason, Antonio Marcello Barberini, churlish, Dark Ages, Edward Gibbon, Enlightenment, Friedrich Nietzsche, Galileo, H.L. Mencken, mercantile capitalism, modernity, New Atheists, scientific racialism, Serapium, Urban VIII, wars of religion, William James, witch hunts

By listener request, David Bentley Hart joins us to discuss his award-winning book, “Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and its Fashionable Enemies.” We cover who these “new” atheists are, how they differ from the old atheists, and Prof. Hart’s general reactions to more common claims by atheist scholars about the Christian past and the “Age of Reason.”

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Rod Stark on the Triumph of Christianity, Part III

Tags: Catholic Church, Council of Trent, Counter-Reformation, free cities, Martin Luther, New Atheists, nones, Notre Dame, Pope Pius IX, printing press, Reformation, Roman Catholicism, secularization, secularization theory, seminaries, Spanish Inquisition, state church, Steve Pfaff, witchcraft trials

Prof. Rodney Stark returns to discuss the final part of his monumental book, “The Triumph of Christianity.” We pick up the story of Christianity with the Protestant Reformation and take it up to the contemporary period. Along the way, we talk about the Catholic Counter-Reformation, the Spanish Inquisition, Christianity’s transfer to the Western Hemisphere and what is becoming of this faith tradition today.

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