How Christianity Remade the World: Tom Holland Interview

The Becket Cook Show

News, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

5 • 921 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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In today’s episode, Becket talks with the British historian, Tom Holland, about his brilliant book, “Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World.” We look at how Christian assumptions are underneath everything including the French Revolution, Harvey Weinstein & #METOO, and the Women’s March. Time itself is grounded in Christianity in terms of the calendar we use—B.C (before Christ) and A.D. (anno domini – the year of our Lord). All of time turns on the incarnation of Christ! Our entire society is saturated by Christian concepts and assumptions.

About the book:

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-was to be worshipped as a god. Dominion explores the implications of this shocking conviction as they have reverberated throughout history. Today, the West remains utterly saturated by Christian assumptions. As Tom Holland demonstrates, our morals and ethics are not universal but are instead the fruits of a very distinctive civilization. Concepts such as secularism, liberalism, science, and homosexuality are deeply rooted in a Christian seedbed. From Babylon to the Beatles, Saint Michael to #MeToo, Dominion tells the story of how Christianity transformed the modern world.

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0:26.0	Please consider subscribing to the podcast and leaving a five-star rating. rating. Hey guys, welcome to the show.
0:37.0	Tonight, I have a very special guest, Tom Holland, the British historian, not the actor.
0:47.7	And the reason it's 10.30 PM, my time in Los Angeles is because it's 6.30 a.m. his time in London and we're going to be talking
0:56.7	about his book Dominion. The subtitle is How the Christian Revolution remade the world. It's a fascinating, fascinating book. And
1:07.1	Tom Holland is an award-winning historian of the ancient world and the author of six
1:11.6	previous books including Rubicon and Persian Fire.
1:16.0	He contributes regularly to The Guardian, The Times of London, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.
1:23.0	And obviously he, as I said, he lives in London.
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