Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The Unfinished Reformation; Reformation to Revolution; The Civil War; Restoration and Restraint; Freethought in a Protestant Key; Re-narrating Nature; 2 Things Fall Apart; Dissenters and Evangelicals; The Gathering of Infidels; Origins and Ends; Walking Apart; 3 An Inductive Theology; The Scottish Philosophy; An Evangelical Empire; The Shock of the New; Death in Tennessee; 4 The Secret Sympathy; Contemporary Context; The Bible: Literal, Univocal and Perspicuous; Divine Activity: Disruptive and Substitutionary Opposites Attract; 5 A House Divided; New Atheists; Protestant Fundamentalists; Dialectic of Protestantism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Examines the idea that new atheism and Protestant fundamentalism have the same historical origin, and share a range of surprising beliefs
