Tom Holland, author of the recently published Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World, has done a great service to current discussions on the relationship between Christianity and Western civilization. Holland crystallizes discussions about the nature of Christianity to the development of culture and politics in Europe—and then in places like North America and Australia—and how Christianity influenced the world in numerous other ways.
To many who have read and researched this topic, the answer seems straightforward: Europe and Western civilization as a whole is indelibly and fundamentally indebted to Christianity. The values that we all hold dear, Holland shows time and again, spring not from Greece or Rome, primarily, but are distinctly Christian in orientation and inspiration.
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