Robin Monotti (@robinmonotti)

Christmas & the Origins of Human Rights "This book is about the revolutionary effect of Christianity on the Western psyche. Tom Holland’s gist is that an awful lot of the things we hold to be self-evident in terms of human rights and values — the equality of man (and woman), our solidarity with the weak against the strong, the displacement of religious law by the law of love —squarely derive from the life and teachings of Christ and their subsequent application to our way of looking at the world by his followers, starting with that cultivated and brilliant Jew, St Paul. The book has already usefully ruffled feathers; contemporary liberals do not particularly like to be reminded of their debt to a world view that they feel they have outgrown and discarded; indeed which many regard as an obstacle in the way of social progress." https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/books/dominion-the-making-of-the-western-mind-by-tom-holland-review-a4234891.html