Evolution of the West
Subtitle: how Christianity has shaped our values
By: Nick Spencer
Edition: Expanded edition.
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780664263836
Subjects: Christian ethics; Religious aspects; Values; Church and the world; Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why the West is different; title: Religiously secular: the making of America; title: Trouble with the law: Magna Carta and the limits of the law; title: christianity and democracy: friend and foe; title: Saving humanism from the humanists; title: Christianity and atheism: a family affair; title: The accidental midwife: the emergence of a scientific culture; title: No doubts as to how one ought to act: Darwin's doubts and his faith; title: The religion of Christianity and the religion of human rights; title: The secular self; title: Always with you: capital, inequality and the absence of war; title: The rise of Christian populism; title: Not just mere rhetoric: the word in U.S. politics.