Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction ix
4. Part I. Faith, Reason, and Freedom: A View from the Present
5. 1. The Gospel of Unbelief 3
6. 2. The Age of Freedom 19
7. Part II. The Mythology of the Secular Age: Modernity’s Rewriting of the Christian Past
8. 3. Faith and Reason 29
9. 4. The Night of Reason 36
10. 5. The Destruction of the Past 49
11. 6. The Death and Rebirth of Science 56
12. 7. Intolerance and Persecution 75
13. 8. Intolerance and War 88
14. 9. An Age of Darkness 99
15. Part III. Revolution: The Christian Invention of the Human
16. 10. The Great Rebellion 111
17. 11. A Glorious Sadness 129
18. 12. A Liberating Message 146
19. 13. The Face of the Faceless 166
20. 14. The Death and Birth of Worlds 183
21. 15. Divine Humanity 199
22. Part IV. Reaction and Retreat: Modernity and the Eclipse of the Human
23. 16. Secularism and Its Victims 219
24. 17. Sorcerers and Saints 229
25. Notes 243
26. Index 251