“With impressive erudition and polemical panache, David Hart smites hip and thigh the peddlers of a `new atheism’ that recycles hoary arguments from the past. His grim assessment of our cultural moment challenges the hope that `the Christian revolution’ could happen again.”-Richard John Neuhaus, former editor in chief of First Things
“Provoked by and responding to the standard-bearers of `the New Atheism’, this original and intellectually impressive work deftly demolishes their mythical account of `the rise of modernity.’ Hart argues instead that the genuinely humane values of modernity have their historic roots in Christianity.”-Geoffrey Wainwright, Duke Divinity School
“In this learned, provocative, and sophisticated book, Hart presents a frontal challenge to today”s myopic caricature of the culture and religion that existed in previous centuries.”-Robert Louis Wilken, University of Virginia