Dominion : how the Christian revolution remade the world / Tom Holland.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Basic Books, 2019Edition: First US editionDescription: x, 612 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780465093502
- 0465093507
- 270
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Book | Bedford Public Library Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction | 270 HOL | Available | 32500001785923 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A "marvelous" ( Economist ) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. Crucifixion, the Romans believed, was the worst fate imaginable, a punishment reserved for slaves. 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. Dominion explores the implications of this shocking conviction as they have reverberated throughout history. Today, the West remains utterly saturated by Christian assumptions. As Tom Holland demonstrates, our morals and ethics are not universal but are instead 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 modern world.
"Originally published in 2019 by Little, Brown in the United Kingdom"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (pages 575-591) and index.
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 -- Christendom: Conversion : 754, Frisia -- Revolution : 1076, Cambrai -- Persecution : 1229, Marburg -- Flesh : 1300, Milan -- Apocalypse : 1420, Tabor -- Reformation : 1520, Wittenberg -- Cosmos : 1620, Leiden -- 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.
"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.