Contents -- Introduction -- PART ONE: FAITH, REASON, AND FREEDOM: A VIEW FROM THE PRESENT -- 1 The Gospel of Unbelief -- 2 The Age of Freedom -- PART TWO: THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE SECULAR AGE: MODERNITY'S REWRITING OF THE CHRISTIAN PAST -- 3 Faith and Reason -- 4 The Night of Reason -- 5 The Destruction of the Past -- 6 The Death and Rebirth of Science -- 7 Intolerance and Persecution -- 8 Intolerance and War -- 9 An Age of Darkness -- PART THREE: REVOLUTION: THE CHRISTIAN INVENTION OF THE HUMAN -- 10 The Great Rebellion -- 11 A Glorious Sadness -- 12 A Liberating Message -- 13 The Face of the Faceless -- 14 The Death and Birth of Worlds -- 15 Divine Humanity -- PART FOUR: REACTION AND RETREAT: MODERNITY AND THE ECLIPSE OF THE HUMAN -- 16 Secularism and Its Victims -- 17 Sorcerers and Saints -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.