History justifies Christian faith
Influential atheists such as Richard Dawkins like to indict belief in God as the ‘root of all evil’. Stark, an American Professor of Sociology, has written a far more thoughtful, evidence-based, intellectually challenging, yet extremely readable analysis of the impact of the belief that there is one God.
Colin Reeves
FOR THE GLORY OF GOD
How monotheism led to reformations, science, witch-hunts and the end of slavery
By Rodney Stark
Princeton University Press. 504 pages
ISBN 0 691 11950 3
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