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Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind Hardcover – September 6, 2019

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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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Dominion, Tom Holland, Diarmaid MacCulloch

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Little, Brown; First Edition (September 6, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1408706954
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1408706954
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.13 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.3 x 1.57 x 9.29 inches

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Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, biographer and broadcaster. He is the author of 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 his history of the Graeco-Persian wars, won the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award in 2006; Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom, a panoramic account of the two centuries on either side of the apocalyptic year 1000; In the Shadow of the Sword, which covers the collapse of Roman and Persian power in the Near East, and the emergence of Islam; and Dynasty, a portrait of Rome's first imperial dynasty.

He has adapted Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Virgil for the BBC. His translation of Herodotus was published in 2013 by Penguin Classics. His biography of Æthelstan, the first King of England, was published in 2016 under the Penguin Monarchs series, and his biography of Æthelflæd, England’s Forgotten Founder, was a Ladybird Expert Book published in 2019. In 2007, he was the winner of the Classical Association prize, awarded to ‘the individual who has done most to promote the study of the language, literature and civilisation of Ancient Greece and Rome’.

Holland is the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Making History. He has written and presented a number of TV documentaries, for the BBC and Channel 4, on subjects ranging from ISIS to dinosaurs.

He served two years as the Chair of the Society of Authors and is Chair of the British Library’s PLR Advisory Committee.

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A fresh approach to a familiar subject

Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2023

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I enjoyed the book immensely. I think anyone interested in history would. The author does not write from a
religious or theological stance, but as a rather objective historian, and demonstrates convincingly the influence Christianity has had on Western values and virtues, even though that influence is very often unacknowledged
or recognized. And he does so in an extremely interesting and readable manner, picking his historical periods and personages very judiciously to illustrate his thesis.

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Great Read!!!!!

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Matthías Páll Gissurarson

How Christianity has shaped Western Thought

Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2022

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An insightful book on the influence that Christianity has had on our society and furthermore how it has escaped the throes of religion and been exported throughout the world. Makes you think about the assumptions we make about other societies (such as ancient Rome) and to be vary of assuming the framework of thought was at all the same! I wish though to hear the other side of the coin: which implicit assumptions have we in the west imported from other societies?

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Fascinating insight to our culture

Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2020

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Typical Holland book, easy to read and fascinating insight on every page. Don’t let this one pass you by. Mr. Holland kept glued to his book until the end.

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Sheldon

A liberal arts education in one book

Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2020

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I found this book to be a wonderful review of western civilization as influenced by Christianity. I felt better educated after reading it. Every important historical person I had ever heard of, plus many I had never heard of, are in this book. And why they are important.

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This guy. Tom Holland. Wow.

Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2020

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Classic Holland - incredibly researched and densely written. Packed with incredible anecdotes and and brilliant observations. Totally joyride.

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Cristianismo y la cultura occidental

Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2019

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Este libro traza el cambio de paradigma de la sociedad Occidental bajo la influencia de la vida de Jesucristo y el judaísmo que le precedio y como los valores judeo cristianos forman la base de la cultura occidental y han permeado todas las estructuras de nuestra vida.

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Francisco Rebolledo

Bien escrito y narrado

Reviewed in Mexico on May 15, 2023

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Fascinante relato de historia

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CGH

Very important book

Reviewed in the Netherlands on February 7, 2024

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A very important modern history; essential reading for Christians and secular readers.

Adam

Książka ma inną okładkę i jest porysowana

Reviewed in Poland on October 3, 2023

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Książka nie wygląda na nową. Po rozpakowaniu okazał się że jest cała zakurzona i porysowana. Rogi są lekko zniszczone.

Poza tym książka sama w sobie jest super (czytałem już na Kindle)

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RoC

The ever climbing stars of my Dominion review

Reviewed in Sweden on December 23, 2023

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At first I gave this 3 stars as it was good but a bit all over the place (I had trouble with the jumps in logic throughout), then I thought a bit more about it and I gave it 4 stars as it made a good point and ultimately I agreed with the premise (even as an atheist, this was not difficult). No worries, 4 stars it was but...I kept thinking about the book, kept mulling the idea over and then started to see WHY this idea was so important to how I should ultimately view "Western values" and it's so unique and WHY it is so worth preserving them. 5 stars, how could it not be?

Gavran

Reframing of what modern western culture is

Reviewed in Germany on November 11, 2021

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To think this book is addressed to Christians would be a mistake.

This book is of interest to anyone looking to understand the development of modern western culture and how it came to be such as it is.

Starting with ancient Greece and Persia, the book chronologically introduces precedents: key events and ideas that will shape christian faith and consequentially various European leaders, empires, institutions, peoples and ultimately through the British and the Americans the entire globe. Holland traces back to christian lore concepts and ideas nowadays erroneously thought of as universal, as naturally emergent, while in fact they are culturally contingent and stem from Christianity - human rights, abolition of slavery, secularism, gender identity, equality of sexes, etc. It shows that Christianity is not a static, rigid doctrine but instead process of continuous revolution that constantly questions it's premises, reshapes and reinvents itself, from the very first church of Peter and Paul onward.

Most interesting to the modern reader is how, towards the end of the book, Holland ties together historic precedents peppered through the book and how seemingly novel and original ideas, such as Communism, are familiar to the reader by the end of the book. Holland shows how these concepts and events continue to shape our culture, our expectations and norms today, without us realizing where they actually come from. Even the most current movements such as social justice/Woke, BLM, #metoo etc. fit nicely the pattern woven by christian concepts through the millennia.

The narrative is interesting and vivid, never plodding or boring. The author on occasion does some myth-busting and makes a retelling of well known historical events (such as the Galileo debacle) with more context. Throughout Holland manages to avoid superficiality as much as possible for a book of popular history and introduces some bona fide theological concepts and crucial ideas.

Though almost 700 pages long, it tackles a subject so immense that it's little else than a well done crash course into the subject matter and perhaps even better as a jumping off point into more thorough research of it's many ideas, cast of characters and momentous events. Recommended to anyone looking to get a new perspective on how western culture was and continues to be this day shaped by a death of a single man in a remote backwater of the Roman empire in the year 786 ab urbe condita.

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