christian civilization

"Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence is the single most transformative development in Western history. [This book] explores what it was that made Christianity so revolutionary and why, in a West that has become increasingly doubtful of religion's claims, so many of its instincts remain irredeemably Christian. Today, the West remains utterly saturated by Christian assumptions. Our morals and ethics are not universal. Instead, they are 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, . . . tells the story of how Christianity transformed the world"Provided by publisher.

Covers the economy, politics, law, science, philosophy, and the art of the Christians, Moslems, and the Jews during medieval times.

This book provides the history of Christianity, and explains how the current divisions in the faith occurred.

"As one of the foremost evanglical thinkers of the twentieth century, Francis Schaeffer long pondered the fate of declining Western culture. In this brilliant book he analyzed the reasons for modern society's state of affiars and presented the only viable alternative:living by the Christian ethic, acceptance of God's revelation, and total affirmation of the Bible's morals, values, and meaning." Provided by publisher.

Presents the author's view of how Christianity shaped the development of the Western world, suggesting that Christianity--with rational thought and its related institutions--was directly responsible for the important intellectual, political, and scientific breakthroughs in history.