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Nick Spencer
The Evolution of the West
How Christianity Has Shaped Our Values

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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.

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Nick Spencer is research director at Theos, a Christian think tank, and author of a number of books, including Atheists: The Origin of the Species and Darwin and God.

Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● Seiten 204 ● ISBN 9781611648560 ● Dateigröße 0.4 MB ● Verlag Presbyterian Publishing Corporation ● Ort KY ● Land US ● Erscheinungsjahr 2018 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 8278175 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM

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