Dominion : how the Christian revolution remade the world

Summary: "Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence is the single most transformative development in Western history. [This book] explores what it was that made Christianity so revolutionary and why, in a West that has become increasingly doubtful of religion's claims, so many of its instincts remain irredeemably Christian. Today, the West remains utterly saturated by Christian assumptions. Our morals and ethics are not universal. Instead, they are the fruits of a very distinctive civilization. Concepts such as secularism, liberalism, science, and homosexuality are deeply rooted in a Christian seedbed. From Babylon to the Beatles, Saint Michael to #MeToo, Dominion tells the story of how Christianity transformed the world" -- inside front jacket flap.

Item details

ISBN: 0465093507
ISBN: 9780465093502
Physical Description: print
regular print
x, 612 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (some color) ; 25 cm
Edition: First US edition.
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019

Contents / Notes

General Note:	"Originally published in 2019 by Little, Brown in the United Kingdom"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-591) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Part I. Antiquity. Athens : 479 BC, The Hellespont -- Jerusalem : 63 BC, Jerusalem -- Mission : AD 19, Galatia -- Belief : AD 177, Lyon -- Charity : AD 362, Pessinus -- Heaven : 492, Mount Gargano -- Exodus : 632, Carthage -- Part II. Christendom. Conversion : 754, Frisia -- Revolution : 1076, Cambrai -- Persecution : 1229, Marburg -- Flesh : 1300, Milan -- Apocalypse : 1420, Tabor -- Reformation : 1520, Wittenberg -- Cosmos : 1620, Leiden -- Part III. Modernitas. Spirit : 1649, St George's Hill -- Enlightenment : 1762, Toulouse -- Religion : 1825, Baroda -- Science : 1876, The Judith River -- Shadow : 1916, The Somme -- Love : 1967, Abbey Road -- Woke : 2015, Rostock.