Dominion

By Tom Holland,

Book cover of Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind

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…

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1 author picked Dominion as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

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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