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Dominion - The Making of the Western Mind (Paperback)
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Dominion - The Making of the Western Mind (Paperback)
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Christianity 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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