British popular historian — author of Rubicon, Persian Fire, Dynasty, and Dominion — host of The Rest Is History podcast — the leading popular historian of the ancient world and early Christianity for English-language audiences.
Creates the most compelling popular argument that Christianity is the hidden source code of Western secular morality — Holland's Dominion (2019) argues that concepts like human rights, equality, and universal dignity are Christian inventions that secular modernity has inherited while denying their religious origins.
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