![]() ![]() Both his Preface and his final chapter suggest that he personally regrets the loss of it. Like Yuval Noah Harari and Jordan Peterson he knows that absence of meaning will be both the greatest threat and greatest fear of humanity in the twenty-first century. Yet he writes as an unbeliever about ‘the most influential framework for making sense of human existence that has ever existed’ (519). Holland contends that every idea, every event, practically every thought is either a development from, or a reaction against the influence of the world’s central defining life: the life of Christ. ![]() Whichever you think, it would be hard to begrudge the author anything less than the highest praise for this superbly narrated history of Europe and the West’s religious and cultural heritage in which he traces its influence down the ages from Jesus (and before) to the #MeToo campaign. But is the idea alarming or reassuring? It will depend on how the reader views the world. Such seems to be the central idea in Tom Holland’s aptly named book, Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind. You can never escape your past – or at least your Christian past.
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