Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind

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C. Grayling has rejected Holland's interpretation of Christianity's influence on modern morality, [21] [22] meeting Tom Holland for debate on the subject. Apart from providing a brilliant history of Christianity in the first part, the book essentially demonstrates that common liberal and secular values of human rights owe a lot to Christianity and that these are extensions of the religion. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Jonathan Sumption, writing for The Spectator, opined the book was "sustained with all the breadth, originality and erudition that we have come to associate with Holland’s writing. However, I think Holland could have looked to more contemporary non-Christian cultures to highlight differences.

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. of the Reformation, precipitated by Martin Luther, and which consequently caused the morphing of different communities' beliefs into Protestantism.Followers of Satan around the same time were obliged to suck on the tongue of a giant toad and lick the anus of a black cat. Yet what distinguishes the Judeo-Christian idea of love from the romantic, erotic, touchy-feely sense it has acquired in modern times is that it has nothing to do with feeling. When clergymen both black and white quoting the Africaaners most admired clergyman, that no possible backing for racial segregation was to be found in his writings but just the opposite, a hammer blow was dealt to the apartheid regime. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed .

Krafft-Ebing rather than condemning sodomy saw Christianity’s great contribution to civilisation: lifelong monogamy. For Cajetan, the teachings of the Church were universal in their reach; Christianity should be imposed not by force but solely by persuasion; that neither kings nor emperors nor the Church itself had any right to ordain their conquest. It’s well known that the abolition of slavery owes much to evangelicals and Quakers; it’s less well known that one of the first to make the case against it on Christian grounds was Gregory of Nyssa in the fourth century, though the equality of slave and master was already given in Christianity. average hourly wage with the cost of a suite at the Peninsula costing over two thousand dollars a night. As he says, “the trace elements of Christianity continued to infuse people’s morals and presumptions so utterly that many failed even to detect their presence.To many feminists and advocates of gay rights, Christianity seemed the opponent representing bigotry, injustice and persecution. Paul willingly put this manifesto into practice by abandoning his privileges, including the rights of Roman citizenship.

A hierarchy of victimhood that could be summed up as” the last shall be first and the last first” In 2017 Harvey Weinstein a movie mogul had allegations brought against him for harassment , rape and assault by eighty women. His bestselling books include Rubicon: The Triumph and the Tragedy of the Roman Republic , which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; Persian Fire , which won the Anglo-Hellenic League's Runciman Award; Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom ; In the Shadow of the Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World ; Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar ; and Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind .Holland cites the example of Band Aid/Live Aid in response to the Ethiopia famine -biblical in proportion-as embodying the Christian message that charity should be offered to the needy, to strangers in foreign lands as much as next door neighbours.