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Evolution of the West: How Christianity Has Shaped Our Values [Pehme köide]

(University of Warwick)
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 218 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 229x152x13 mm, kaal: 327 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 14-Feb-2018
  • Kirjastus: Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S.
  • ISBN-10: 0664263836
  • ISBN-13: 9780664263836
Teised raamatud teemal:
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 218 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 229x152x13 mm, kaal: 327 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 14-Feb-2018
  • Kirjastus: Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S.
  • ISBN-10: 0664263836
  • ISBN-13: 9780664263836
Teised raamatud teemal:

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.



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...
Acknowledgments viii
Introduction 1(9)
1 Why the West Is Different
10(15)
2 Religiously Secular: The Making of America
25(14)
3 Trouble with the Law: Magna Carta and the Limits of the Law
39(13)
4 Christianity and Democracy: Friend and Foe
52(13)
5 Saving Humanism from the Humanists
65(15)
6 Christianity and Atheism: A Family Affair
80(15)
7 The Accidental Midwife: The Emergence of a Scientific Culture
95(16)
8 "No Doubts as to How One Ought to Act": Darwin's Doubts and His Faith
111(15)
9 The Religion of Christianity and the Religion of Human Rights
126(13)
10 The Secular Self
139(14)
11 "Always with You": Capital, Inequality, and the "Absence of War"
153(15)
12 The Rise of Christian Populism
168(13)
13 Not Just Mere Rhetoric: The Word in U.S. Politics
181(18)
Further Reading 199(2)
Index 201