Dominion : how the Christian revolution remade the world
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 624
ISBN-13: 9780465093502
Description: "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.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: 1; label: Part I
title: Antiquity; label: 1
title: Athens, 479 BC: The Hellespont
pagenum: 21; label: 2
title: Jerusalem, 63 BC: Jerusalem
pagenum: 47; label: 3
title: Mission, AD 19: Galatia
pagenum: 80; label: 4
title: Belief, AD 177: Lyon
pagenum: 107; label: 5
title: Charity, AD 362: Pessinus
pagenum: 137; label: 6
title: Heaven, 492: Mount Gargano
pagenum: 159; label: 7
title: Exodus, 632: Carthage
pagenum: 179; label: Part II
title: Christendom; label: 8
title: Conversion, 754: Frisia
pagenum: 201; label: 9
title: Revolution, 1076: Cambrai
pagenum: 222; label: 10
title: Persecution, 1229: Marburg
pagenum: 247; label: 11
title: Flesh, 1300: Milan
pagenum: 271; label: 12
title: Apocalypse, 1420: Tabor
pagenum: 292; label: 13
title: Reformation, 1520: Wittenberg
pagenum: 314; label: 14
title: Cosmos, 1620: Leiden
pagenum: 338; label: Part III
title: Modernitas; label: 15
title: Spirit, 1649: St George's Hill
pagenum: 363; label: 16
title: Enlightenment, 1762: Toulouse
pagenum: 387; label: 17
title: Religion, 1825: Baroda
pagenum: 413; label: 18
title: Science, 1876: The Judith River
pagenum: 435; label: 19
title: Shadow, 1916: The Somme
pagenum: 459; label: 20
title: Love, 1967: Abbey Road
pagenum: 488; label: 21
title: Woke, 2015: Rostock
pagenum: 515; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 543; title: Notes
pagenum: 545; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 575; title: Index
pagenum: 593