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Title: a problem: contemporary fundamentalism based in the enlightenment
Review: The problem with this book is that contemporary fundamentalist Christianity itself (which this book embodies) is based in the Enlightenment and the movement toward "reason" that this book seeks to attack. Fundamentalist Christianity originated in a movement called Scholasticism, under the theory that the Bible is literally true, and the reader is able to determine the one, true coherent doctrine, by reason, if s/he reads it correctly. Before this period, the Bible was read significantly more in metaphorical and allegorical terms (see anyone from Augustine to John Calvin), and not as a linear, literalistic, reason-based, scientific, doctrine and proof-oriented, historically accurate textbook, as Fundamentalist Christians read it now.
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