Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World - Hardcover

Holland, Tom

 
9780465093502: Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0465093507 ISBN 13: 9780465093502
Verlag: Basic Books, 2019

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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.
 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tom Holland is an award-winning historian of the ancient world, a translator of Greek classical texts, and a documentary writer. He is the author of six other books, including Rubicon, recipient of the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, and Persian Fire, winner of the Anglo-Hellenic League's Runciman Award. He contributes regularly to the Guardian, the Times of London, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. He lives in London.

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Verlag
Basic Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0465093507
ISBN 13 
9780465093502
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
612
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