Summary
"Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence is the single most transformative development in Western history. [This book] explores what it was that made Christianity so revolutionary and why, in a West that has become increasingly doubtful of rel... Full description
- Part I.
- Antiquity.
- Athens : 479 BC, The Hellespont
- Jerusalem : 63 BC, Jerusalem
- Mission : AD 19, Galatia
- Belief : AD 177, Lyon
- Charity : AD 362, Pessinus
- Heaven : 492, Mount Gargano
- Exodus : 632, Carthage
- Part II.
- Christendom.
- Conversion : 754, Frisia
- Revolution : 1076, Cambrai
- Persecution : 1229, Marburg
- Flesh : 1300, Milan
- Apocalypse : 1420, Tabor
- Reformation : 1520, Wittenberg
- Cosmos : 1620, Leiden
- Part III.
- Modernitas.
- Spirit : 1649, St George's Hill
- Enlightenment : 1762, Toulouse
- Religion : 1825, Baroda
- Science : 1876, The Judith River
- Shadow : 1916, The Somme
- Love : 1967, Abbey Road
- Woke : 2015, Rostock.