Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imaginationCrucifixion, the Romans believed, was the worst…
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Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imaginationCrucifixion, the Romans believed, was the worst fate imaginable, a punishment reserved for slaves. Dominion explores the implications of this shocking conviction as they have reverberated throughout history. How astonishing it was, then, that people should have come to believe that one particular victim of crucifixion -- an obscure provincial by the name of Jesus -- was to be worshipped as a god.
As Tom Holland demonstrates, our morals and ethics are not universal but are instead the fruits of a very distinctive civilization. Today, the West remains utterly saturated by Christian assumptions. Concepts such as secularism, liberalism, science, and homosexuality are deeply rooted in a Christian seedbed.
From Babylon to the Beatles, Saint Michael to #MeToo,