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Dominion
The Making of the Western Mind
«An erudite and fascinating look at the enduring legacy of Christianity, which, as numbers of believers are dwindling»
The Lady
'If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . . . Written with terrific learning, enthusiasm and good humour, Holland's book is not just supremely provocative, but often very funny' Sunday Times History Book of the Year
Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history.
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'If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . . . Written with terrific learning, enthusiasm and good humour, Holland's book is not just supremely provocative, but often very funny' Sunday Times History Book of the Year
Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless superstition, remain recognisably its heirs. Seen close-up, the division between a sceptic and a believer may seem unbridgeable. Widen the focus, though, and Christianity's enduring impact upon the West can be seen in the emergence of much that has traditionally been cast as its nemesis: in science, in secularism, and yes, even in atheism.
That is why Dominion will place the story of how we came to be what we are, and how we think the way that we do, in the broadest historical context. Ranging in time from the Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC to the on-going migration crisis in Europe today, and from Nebuchadnezzar to the Beatles, it will explore just what it was that made Christianity so revolutionary and disruptive; how completely it came to saturate the mind-set of Latin Christendom; and why, in a West that has become increasingly doubtful of religion's claims, so many of its instincts remain irredeemably Christian. The aim is twofold: to make the reader appreciate just how novel and uncanny were Christian teachings when they first appeared in the world; and to make ourselves, and all that we take for granted, appear similarly strange in consequence. We stand at the end-point of an extraordinary transformation in the understanding of what it is to be human: one that can only be fully appreciated by tracing the arc of its parabola over millennia.
Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless superstition, remain recognisably its heirs. Seen close-up, the division between a sceptic and a believer may seem unbridgeable. Widen the focus, though, and Christianity's enduring impact upon the West can be seen in the emergence of much that has traditionally been cast as its nemesis: in science, in secularism, and yes, even in atheism.
That is why Dominion will place the story of how we came to be what we are, and how we think the way that we do, in the broadest historical context. Ranging in time from the Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC to the on-going migration crisis in Europe today, and from Nebuchadnezzar to the Beatles, it will explore just what it was that made Christianity so revolutionary and disruptive; how completely it came to saturate the mind-set of Latin Christendom; and why, in a West that has become increasingly doubtful of religion's claims, so many of its instincts remain irredeemably Christian. The aim is twofold: to make the reader appreciate just how novel and uncanny were Christian teachings when they first appeared in the world; and to make ourselves, and all that we take for granted, appear similarly strange in consequence. We stand at the end-point of an extraordinary transformation in the understanding of what it is to be human: one that can only be fully appreciated by tracing the arc of its parabola over millennia.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Abacus
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 624
- ISBN
- 9780349141206
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Anmeldelser
«An erudite and fascinating look at the enduring legacy of Christianity, which, as numbers of believers are dwindling»
The Lady
«Those who like their history with a dose of lessons about the present will be impressed by Tom Holland's ambitious Dominion»
Telegraph
«[Holland encapsulates] so much, so intelligently and entertainingly, in a book that's fizzing with ideas»
Andrew Lycett, Mail on Sunday
«I love the sweep of it»
Sunday Telegraph
«An absorbing survey of Christianity's subversive origins and enduring influence is filled with vivid portraits, gruesome deaths and moral debates . . . Holland has all the talents of an accomplished novelist: a gift for narrative, a lively sense of drama and a fine ear for the rhythm of a sentence»
Terry Eagleton, Guardian
«Definitely my book of the year»
Bernard Cornwell
«
Tom Holland's stupendous new book . . . There isn't a page of this magnificent book that does not contain some
» Tim Stanley, History Today
fascinating detail and the narrative is held together with a novelist's eye for character and theme
«A brilliant meditation on how Christianity in its Latin and Protestant forms entirely changed the way humans conceive life and their relationship to each other»
Helen Thompson, New Statesman
«If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . . . Written with terrific learning, enthusiasm and good humour, Holland's book is not just supremely provocative, but often very funny»
Sunday Times
«This extraordinary book is vintage Tom Holland: history boldly and elegantly retold, with fascinating interconnections traced to create a narrative that cannot fail to stimulate, for it leads to a never-ending question»
Diarmaid MacCulloch
«A bravura swing through centuries of Western European history . . . a cornucopia of characters and information: almost everyone would learn from it something they didn't know . . . the range and unobvious sweep of his narrative are most impressive»
Times Literary Supplement
«Terrific: bold, ambitious and passionate»
Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads
«Tom Holland is fun to read, monstrously erudite, wickedly joyful, and ahead of the established consensus, on average, by four years, three months, and two days»
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of the Incerto (The Black Swan, Antifragile...)
«Holland is an illuminating guide on a journey from Ancient Athens to 21st-century gay rights»
History Revealed
«Sustained with all the breadth, originality and erudition that we have come to associate with Holland's writing»
Spectator
«Holland is an exceptionally good storyteller with a marvellous eye for detail»
The Economist
«An all-absorbing story»
Literary Review
«This book has ruffled feathers . . . lyrical, vivid»
Evening Standard
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