Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World - Hardcover

by Tom Holland (Author)

An extraordinary account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination, from the author of Rubicon.

"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. 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.

Author Biography

Tom Holland is an award-winning historian of the ancient world, a translator of Greek and Roman classical texts, and a documentary writer. He is the author of six other books, including Rubicon, Persian Fire, and Pax. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, and he co-presents the podcast The Rest Is History. He lives in London.