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… ‘Unbelievers’ Review: Fearful, Faithless - WSJ. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

“Unbelievers” devotes itself to the watershed period between Martin Luther in the 1520s and Baruch Spinoza in the 1670s. To anyone reared on the myth that the culture of European Christendom was chiefly subverted by “reason” and “science,” Mr. Ryrie’s account will be bracingly unfamiliar. The Scientific Revolution plays no role in his book, for the excellent reason that virtually all of the pioneering natural scientists of the era were devoutly religious. Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton and their colleagues would have viewed the New Atheists as bombastic provocateurs. They certainly did not consider belief in God, the soul and the afterlife to be puerile delusions.