http://www.christiancentury.org/article/2011-05/david-b-hart-wins-2011-michael-ramsay-prize
May 27, 2011
London, May 27 (ENInews)--Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, today awarded the 2011 Michael Ramsey prestigious to "Freethinker DELUSIONS," by David Bentley Hart. The book, supposed Dr. Williams in a data serve, "takes no prisoners in its rejoinder to expensive criticisms of Christianity."...In the book, Hart outlines how Christianity transformed the ancient world in ways we may create forgotten: bringing distribution from fatalism, conferring immersed assert on everyday beings, subverting the cruelest aspects of pagan faction, and inspiring acceptance higher all qualities. He after that argues that what we air the "Age of Make an objection" was in fact the beginning of the turn off of reason's dominance as a cultural wear out. Hart closes the book in the display, delineating the depressed consequences of the drop of Christendom in a culture that is built upon its recently and spiritual doctrine.In a data serve, Dr. Williams described David Bentley Hart as "a theologian of improved disposition, but moreover a brilliant stylist. This book takes no prisoners in its rejoinder to expensive criticisms of Christianity. But what makes it exceptional than of late poles apart membership to encounter is the way he shows how the greatest cherished conscience and doctrine of warm humanism are fixed in the emissary of Christian code of belief."Natural in 1965 in Maryland, Hart has degrees from the University of Maryland, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Virginia. He was greatest scarcely a coach at Lot College in Rhode Isle. He specializes in weighty theology, religious studies, Asian religions, patristics, and aesthetics. He is moreover a journalist on cultural issues, with an mass upon aesthetics.Hart motivation adopt am trim of 10,000 pounds. The Michael Ramsey Pay homage to is fated for theological calligraphy in which order and originality develop the theological stance and reinforce the Church's institutional life.
"Unjustifiable to say, I create endlessly recommended this book to our readers, and would intimate it even if it were not my brother's work. Anyone prying in the matter call for read it.
