The Anatomy of FascismRobert O. Paxton
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
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In The Darkening Age, Catherine Nixey tells the little-known - and deeply shocking - story of how a militant religion deliberately tried to extinguish the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in unquestioning adherence to the 'one true faith'.
The Roman Empire had been generous in embracing and absorbing new creeds. But with the coming of Christianity, everything changed. This new faith, despite preaching peace, was violent, ruthless and intolerant. And once it became the religion of empire, its zealous adherents set about the destruction of the old gods. Their altars were upturned, their temples demolished and their statues hacked to pieces. Books, including great works of philosophy and science, were consigned to the pyre. It was an annihilation.
A Book of the Year in the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator, the Observer, and BBC History Magazine A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Nonfiction
© 2018 Macmillan Digital Audio (Lydbog): 9781509895762
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Lydbog: 14. juni 2018
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
- Af
- Med
- Forlag
- 215 Anmeldelser
4.3
- Længde
- 9T 19M
- Sprog
- Engelsk
- Format
- Kategori
Religion og spiritualitet
In The Darkening Age, Catherine Nixey tells the little-known - and deeply shocking - story of how a militant religion deliberately tried to extinguish the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in unquestioning adherence to the 'one true faith'.
The Roman Empire had been generous in embracing and absorbing new creeds. But with the coming of Christianity, everything changed. This new faith, despite preaching peace, was violent, ruthless and intolerant. And once it became the religion of empire, its zealous adherents set about the destruction of the old gods. Their altars were upturned, their temples demolished and their statues hacked to pieces. Books, including great works of philosophy and science, were consigned to the pyre. It was an annihilation.
A Book of the Year in the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator, the Observer, and BBC History Magazine A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Nonfiction
© 2018 Macmillan Digital Audio (Lydbog): 9781509895762
Release date
Lydbog: 14. juni 2018
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11. jun. 2022
Good read about the years 300-500 when Christianity became dominant and increasingly destructive towards other religions and the pagan past. Belabours some points more than needed, misses what christianty did take from the philosophers, such as the idea that arguments should be done logically, and that some literature was kept alive, in monestaries and in Constantinoble. But overall a good book.
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