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Tom holland shows how christian precepts came to saturate, indeed, to transform our world from antiquity to modern times. The one question i have after finishing holland's book is what about plato?
While there are minor stylistic gratings the book structure, which marries chronology to vignettes of historical figures works well. Informative but also beautifully written.
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A more complete book might include lynn white's science article that credits christianity with the development of science, and ... Read More
This scholarly work has obviously been painstakingly researched and poetically written by a man who speaks with the authority o... Read More
Don’t miss the chapters titled “mission,” opening with paul in galatia, “reformation,” with martin luther in wittenberg, and “l... Read More
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christian, western, written, modern and through. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- This product had a total of 816 reviews as of our last analysis date on May 6 2023.
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The only true way to reject christianity is with indifferent apathy
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Like jesus says once the salt has lost its savor it is fit for nothing more than to be trampled by horses
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All the items he attributes to christianity can also be found in plato humans made in the image of god timeaus slaves sharing in the same divine reason as masters meno secularism phaedo equality of women diotima in symposium a beginning to time and scientific thought timeaus all you need is love symposium the law written on the heart meno the just man voluntarily accepting unjust execution and forming the central symbolic figure apologia
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The only greek philosopher mentioned is aristotle because of his doctrine that there are natural slaves corrupts scholastic morality
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The author hops and skips through history picking people and events most relevant to the theme
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This necessarily leaves out much context
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The title theme does not become evident until later chapters
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A reader that does not have some knowledge of the history of western civilization would need maps and an encyclopedia at hand
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