Dominion by Tom Holland

This book’s full title is Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World. Also, on the front cover is “A galloping tour of Christianity’s influence across the last 2,000 years” – New York Times. My first impression on reading this book was that I thought it was a rather a chaotic view of Europe and Christianity. The book is certainly a romp through Europe with Christianity. However, it is an interesting and readable book.

There is a great review at History for Atheists by Tim O’Neill. It is very long. A review by Nathan Eberline is a good over view of what is in this book. Nicholas E. Meyer on The Freethinker does an interesting review of this book from a very different perspective and one I do not agree with, but it is interesting. Tim Keller does a review of this book and it is also interesting. He talks about the idea that Christianity influenced the west going back to Nietzsche.

Tom Holland on YouTube debates Anthony Clifford (A. C.) Grayling on Justin Brierley’s Christian radio show/podcast Unbelievable in December 2019. A. C. Grayling is a British philosopher. Tom Hollard points out that Christianity is not only influence by Greek philosophy, but also Jewish philosophy. And it was also influence by Persian philosophy because the Jewish faith was influence by Persian philosophy (Zoroastrianism). Tom Holland thinks that Western Civilization was heavily influenced by Christianity.

A. C. Grayling thinks that that the West think the way we do because we are human and we are overwhelmingly influence by the Greek culture and philosophy. This is what I got from the discussion. Neither man changed their views. I must admit I believe that the Western world was heavily influenced by Christianity. But Christian society was also greatly influenced by the Greeks and Romans. Historically, the Middle East was greatly influenced by the Greeks.

Tom Holland is interview by Eric Metaxas on Socrates in the City at Oxford, England. Tom Holland in interviewed on Triggernometry by Konstantin Kisin and Frances Foster. It is interesting, but there are an awful lot of ads that take away from discussion. Sam Harris interviews Tom Hollard on the Legacy of Christianity on YouTube.

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