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How Christianity Remade the World: Tom Holland Interview

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The Enlightenment and the Enlightened Church in the Middle Ages

The idea of being born again is obviously central to Christian teaching. And what happens in the Middle Ages in Western Europe is that various radicals come to apply that model to the whole fabric of society. The French Revolution targets the church institutionally, but it does it for profoundly Christian reasons.

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