Remaking the World
Book description
In this skillfully researched book, Andrew Wilson explains how 7 historic events in 1776 shaped today's post-Christian West and equips believers to share God's truth in the current social landscape.
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Why read it?
1 author picked Remaking the World as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Some years are recognized as watersheds in the history of a culture or civilization. I found Andrew Wilson's pinpointing of 1776 as such a year with respect to Western civilization remarkable, as---like most Americans---I associated that year solely with the American Revolution. That was certainly an important event and a turning point in Western history, but as Wilson brought out, it did not have its effects in isolation; it coincided with major developments in philosophy (the Enlightenment, the Romantic movement, and the rise of post-Christian thinking) and economics (globalization, the Industrial Revolution, and the rapid increase in wealth, particularly in…