Synopses & Reviews
Is it reasonable to have faith in God? Can intelligent, educated people really believe what the Bible says? Or do the atheists have it righthas Christianity been disproven by science and discredited as a guide to morality? Best-selling author Dinesh D'Souza (The Enemy at Home; What's So Great about America) responds head-on to the anti-God arguments of prominent atheists such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens and defeats them on their own terms. What's So Great about Christianity provides believers with a straightforward tool kit for meeting the challenge of modern atheism and secularism; for nonbelievers, it offers a compelling apologetic that will challenge their assumptions and affirm that there really is something great about Christianity.
Synopsis
Examines the assumptions of Christianity and atheism, and argues, among other issues, that Christianity explains what modern science tells us about the universe and our origins better than atheism.
Synopsis
In a world of facts and figures, can an intellectual have
faith? Is it possible to believe anything the Bible says? Yes, and one man will show you how.
Amidst scientists attempts to debunk Christianitys truths and atheists assuming the Bible is a how-to-be-virtuous self-help book, bestselling author Dinesh DSouza resolves to both answer the tough questions and challenge believers as well as doubters to search for the ultimate truths about theories of origin. DSouza tackles subjects and events such as the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition, the Big Bang theory and Darwinismeverything you always pondered but never scrutinized, now placed under the proverbial microscope and studied thoroughly.
Table of 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.