Dominion
How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
Tom Holland
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination Crucifixion, the Romans believed, was the worst fate imaginable, a punishment reserved for slaves. How astonishing it was, then, that people should have come to believe that one particular victim of crucifixion-an obscure provincial by the name of Jesus...
Publish Date
2019-10-29T00:00:00.000Z
2019-10-29T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads rating
4.24
ISBN
9780349141206
Categories
Recommendations
5
Recommendations
2020-12-14T12:11:00.000Z
A very important book for all to read—Christian believers and non-believers. Tom Holland’s Dominion. Here are my reasons why to read it. – source2020-04-01T19:04:04.000Z
First, @holland_tom Dominion is a must read book. Second, his cricket tweets make as much sense to me as my @Browns tweets must make to him. Dominion is here: – source2020-04-15T06:41:43.000Z
The most interesting books I read in 2019, including
- The Accidental Superpower
- Nonzero
- The Sovereign Individual
- Dominion
- Technological Revolutions – source2020-06-11T15:10:28.000Z
This is an excellent book. My favourite read of 2020 so far. Pick it up if you have space on your summer reading list.📚 📖 – source2021-08-07T18:21:06.000Z
Just had a wide-ranging conversation with one of the current gods in my intellectual pantheon: @holland_tom.
It's the most free-wheeling and interesting interview I've ever done. Can't wait to put it on Pull Request.
In the meantime, read Tom's book! – source