Dominion
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'If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely
new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . . .Written
with terrific learning, enthusiasm and good humour, Holland's book
is not just supremely provocative, but often very funny' Sunday
Times History Book of the YearChristianity is the most enduring and
influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the
single most transformative development in Western history. Even the
increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of
their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless
superstition, remain recognisably its heirs. Seen close-up, the
division between a sceptic and a believer may seem
unbridgeable.Widen the focus, though, and Christianity's enduring
impact upon the West can be seen in the emergence of much that has
traditionally been cast as its nemesis: in science, in secularism,
and yes, even in atheism. That is why Dominion will place the story
of how we came to be what we are, and how we think the way that we
do, in the broadest historical context. Ranging in time from the
Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC to the on-going migration
crisis in Europe today, and from Nebuchadnezzar to the Beatles, it
will explore just what it was that made Christianity so
revolutionary and disruptive, how completely it came to saturate
the mind-set of Latin Christendom, and why, in a West that has
become increasingly doubtful of religion's claims, so many of its
instincts remain irredeemably Christian.The aim is twofold: to make
the reader appreciate just how novel and uncanny were Christian
teachings when they first appeared in the world, and to make
ourselves, and all that we take for granted, appear similarly
strange in consequence. We stand at the end-point of an
extraordinary transformation in the understanding of what it is to
be human: one that can only be fully appreciated by tracing the arc
of its parabola over millennia.
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Holland Tom ,
Abacus
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Holland Tom,
Abacus
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Slovart
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