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Class main Text wins 2011 Ramsey Prize for Theological Writing

“The Michael Ram­sey Prize is intended for the­o­log­i­cal writ­ing which, by fresh­ness and orig­i­nal­ity, some­how changes the the­o­log­i­cal land­scape, and also serves the needs of the Church …  ”  We are glad to see con­fir­ma­tion of our high rec­om­men­da­tion of David Bent­ley Hart’s book,  Athe­ist Delu­sions, by its win­ning the 2011 Michael Ram­sey Prize last month.

Michael Ram­sey Prize 2011 (click to view)

So what if I don’t have time this sum­mer to read the artis­tic and engag­ing Athe­ist Delu­sions? (Which you may recall is actu­ally a book set­ting our civ­i­liza­tion in the con­text of its his­tor­i­cal roots–doing the home­work of trac­ing what is owed to the trans­form­ing influ­ence of Chris­tian­ity.)  You can get the gist of the book by the short sum­mary below by C Bur­rell.  Note the four ways men­tioned of how Chris­tian­ity trans­formed society.

Hart: Athe­ist Delu­sions (click to read)

 

 

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