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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Persian, Greek, Roman, and Jewish ideas created a world in which Christianity could arise.
Chapter 3: Paul interpreted Jesus’s story in ways that formed a counterpoint to the faltering order of Roman society.
Chapter 4: After the Roman emperor Constantine embraced Christianity, the faith adopted the structures and trappings of bureaucracy.
Chapter 5: As Christianity consolidated, believers came to see others as evil and reacted with escalating violence.
Chapter 6: Under Gregory VII, the papacy remade itself as the supreme arbiter of morality.
Chapter 7: The fifteenth century presented fresh challenges to the papacy, yet the Vatican ruthlessly suppressed them at every turn.
Chapter 8: The ascent of Protestantism ignited violence across the world, yet it simultaneously fostered the emergence of a new intellectualism.
Chapter 9: In the eighteenth century, Europeans employed Christianity to delineate and express values.
Chapter 10: At the dawn of the twentieth century, the Christian faith stood upon increasingly shaky ground.
Chapter 11: Christian ideas still matter in today’s world.
Description
Dominion (2021) is a grandiose look at the impact Christianity has had on the development of the Western mind. From its roots in antiquity to the pop singles of the twentieth century, the story follows the dramatic development of Christian thought over three thousand years.
Who Should Listen
- Lovers of broad-sweep history
- Those looking for an insouciant take on European history
- Anyone who thinks they know what Christianity is all about