The Evolution of the West
eBook - ePub

The Evolution of the West

How Christianity Has Shaped Our Values

  1. 204 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Evolution of the West

How Christianity Has Shaped Our Values

About this book

What has Christianity ever done for us? A lot more than you might think, as Nick Spencer reveals in this fresh exploration of our cultural origins.



Looking at the big ideas that characterize the West, such as human dignity, the rule of law, human rights, science, and even, paradoxically, atheism and secularism,he traces the varied ways in which many of our present values grew up and flourished in distinctively Christian soil.



Always alert to the tensions and mess of history, and careful not to overstate or misstate the Christian role in shaping our present values, Spencer shows us how a better awareness of what we owe to Christianity can help us as we face new cultural challenges.

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Information

Publisher
Westminster John Knox Press
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9780664263836
eBook ISBN
9781611648560
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. Why the West Is Different
  11. 2. Religiously Secular: The Making of America
  12. 3. Trouble with the Law: Magna Carta and the Limits of the Law
  13. 4. Christianity and Democracy: Friend and Foe
  14. 5. Saving Humanism from the Humanists
  15. 6. Christianity and Atheism: A Family Affair
  16. 7. The Accidental Midwife: The Emergence of a Scientific Culture
  17. 8. “No Doubts as to How One Ought to Act”: Darwin’s Doubts and His Faith
  18. 9. The Religion of Christianity and the Religion of Human Rights
  19. 10. The Secular Self
  20. 11. “Always with You”: Capital, Inequality, and the “Absence of War”
  21. 12. The Rise of Christian Populism
  22. 13. Not Just Mere Rhetoric: The Word in U.S. Politics
  23. Further Reading
  24. Index

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