Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

Synopsis

An extraordinary account of how the christian revolution forged the western imagination “a galloping tour of christianity’s influence across the last 2, 000 years. ” —new york times 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.