Dominion
Book description
The Sunday Times bestseller, with a new introduction by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
'If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times History Book of the Year
'Terrific: bold, ambitious and passionate' Peter…
Why read it?
2 authors picked Dominion as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
One of the blurbs on this book’s cover calls it “a masterpiece of scholarship and storytelling,” and this is what I think too. How can a work of such terrific learning and filled with such moral passion be so immensely readable and often so very funny?
Holland has an unfailing eye for fascinating historical details and for enthralling historical characters and historical debate. The book is provocative in its critique of modern Western secularism, in the fun it makes of “woke,” and its insistence on the foundational power of the biblical story that God created humans – all humans –…
Why do we think like we do? I love this book because I had no idea of the extent to which, like it or not, the Western mind has been shaped by Christianity.
Free will, charity, social security, the international dating system, morals, gay rights, paganism, monotheism, faith; attitudes to wealth, privilege, marriage, sin, forgiveness, justice, and the law; wherever you look, there lies the influence of Christianity.
We may well be doubtful now of religion’s claims, but, gorblimey (English cockney corruption of ‘God blind me’), if Christianity isn’t there in the very DNA of the rational West. The need…
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