What's So Great About Christianity

by Dinesh D'Souza

Overview

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 Christianity’s truths and atheists’ assuming the Bible is a how-to-be-virtuous self-help book, bestselling author Dinesh D’Souza resolves to both answer the tough questions and challenge believers as well as doubters to search for the ultimate truths about theories of origin. D’Souza tackles subjects and events such as the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition, the Big Bang theory and Darwinism—everything you always pondered but never scrutinized, now placed under the proverbial microscope and studied thoroughly.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781596985179
Publisher:	Skyhorse Publishing
Publication date:	09/25/2007
Pages:	348
Sales rank:	305,912
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

DINESH D'SOUZA has had a prominent career as a writer, scholar, public intellectual, and filmmaker. Born in India, D’Souza came to the U.S. as an exchange student at the age of 17 and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College. The author of many bestselling books including America, The Big Lie, Death of a Nation, and United States of Socialism, he is also the creator of three of the top ten highest-grossing political documentaries ever made.

Table of Contents

A Note on the Interpretation of Scripture     xi
Preface: A Challenge to Believers-and Unbelievers     xiii
The Future of Christianity
The Twilight of Atheism: The Global Triumph of Christianity     1
Survival of the Sacred: Why Religion Is Winning     13
God Is Not Great: The Atheist Assault on Religion     21
Miseducating the Young: Saving Children from Their Parents     31
Christianity and the West
Render unto Caesar: The Spiritual Basis of Limited Government     41
The Evil That I Would Not: Christianity and Human Fallibility     55
Created Equal: The Origin of Human Dignity     67
Christianity and Science
Christianity and Reason: The Theological Roots of Science     83
From Logos to Cosmos: Christianity and the Invention of Invention     91
An Atheist Fable: Reopening the Galileo Case     101
The Argument from Design
A Universe with a Beginning: God and the Astronomers     115
A Designer Planet: Man's Special Place in Creation     127
Paley Was Right: Evolution and the Argument from Design     139
The Genesis Problem: The Methodological Atheism of Science     155
Christianity and Philosophy
The World Beyond Our Senses: Kant and the Limits of Reason     167
In the Belly of the Whale: Why Miracles ArePossible     179
A Skeptic's Wager: Pascal and the Reasonableness of Faith     191
Christianity and Suffering
Rethinking the Inquisition: The Exaggerated Crimes of Religion     203
A License to Kill: Atheism and the Mass Murders of History     213
Christianity and Morality
Natural Law and Divine Law: The Objective Foundations of Morality     225
The Ghost in the Machine: Why Man Is More Than Matter     239
The Imperial "I": When the Self Becomes the Arbiter of Morality     251
Opiate of the Morally Corrupt: Why Unbelief Is So Appealing     261
The Problem of Evil: Where Is Atheism When Bad Things Happen?     273
Christianity and You
Jesus among Other Gods: The Uniqueness of Christianity     283
A Foretaste of Eternity: How Christianity Can Change Your Life     293
Acknowledgments     305
Notes     307
Index     335