Bought this wonderful Christian apologetic work shortly after it was
published in 2007, but I've only just got round to reading it properly,
cover to cover.
The central message I get from the book is that academic Christianity not only holds its own with academic unbelief, but also gets the better of it.
I'm really enjoying the content of the book: how the Crusades were a just war to combat 2-3 centuries of Islamic expansionism; how St. Thomas Aquinas' five ways of naturally showing the existence of God are still more than relevant today; how evolution poses no threat to religion as it amounts to coded design (plus God lies outside time and space, anyway); how modern atheist/secular regimes have killed infinitely more people than any Christian (or any other religious) leaders etc.
Hats off to Dinesh D'Souza for this remarkable book which is both highly erudite and readable. Find it as equally interesting and meaningful as Charles Taylor's A Secular Age, but much less heavy-going.
Have read that Dinesh D'Souza comes from a Catholic background in India while currently attending an evangelical kind of church in the USA (and NOT renouncing his Catholic background). This seems to shine through in What's So Great About Christianity as D'Souza appears to, for example, effortlessly fuse a keen knowledge of the Bible with a sensitive awareness of Thomism. Thus, in some ways the book may be viewed as an expansive work of Christian inter-religious experience (without any of the narrow trappings and limitations of ecumenism, of course).
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