Tom Holland's argument that Christianity is the invisible foundation of Western values — including those that self-consciously reject Christianity, like secular humanism and Marxism.
The Christian revolution: the values that Westerners take as universal — human rights, the dignity of the poor, the equality of all persons before the law — were revolutionary departures from the values of antiquity, and they are specifically Christian. Even secular and anti-Christian Western values (Enlightenment rationalism, Marxism, human rights discourse) are Christianity's offspring. Holland's personal journey from atheist classicist to someone who takes Christianity's world-historical importance seriously.
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