Tom Holland On Our Christian World
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Tom Holland discusses the influence of Christianity on the modern world and its historical context.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Tom is a historian, translator, and podcaster. He hosts with Dominic Sandbrook the most downloaded history pod in the world, “The Rest Is History.” He’s the author of many books, including the two we discussed this week: Rubicon : The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic , and Dominion : How the Christian Revolution Remade the World . Those two erudite, beautifully written books made a huge impact on me. For two clips of our convo — on the paradoxical power of Christ’s crucifixion, and the Christian roots of “secular” — head to our YouTube page . Other topics: growing up in Oxford and near Stonehenge; dinosaurs his first passion; how the past is more interesting than the present; Pontius Pilate; Cato; Caesar in Gaul and conquering Rome; Hegseth reveling in death; the war prayer at the Resolute Desk; Trump’s pre-Christian values; Socrates; Paul the Apostle; turning the other cheek; agape ; Christ’s silence and withdrawal; logos ; the Gospels; the Gnostic Gospels; the Book of Revelation; Exodus and Israel; martyred Christians in the arena; Augustine; the emergence of Islam; the Koran as…
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