Atheist delusions: The christian revolution and its fashionable enemies

Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-253

  Hart, David Bentley ^a  

^a PROVIDENCE COLLEGE   (United States)

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