WOF 386: Christianity, History, and the Modern Age w/ Tom Holland
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
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The Importance of Faith in the 21st Century
I turned to the great dramas of Greek and Roman history as a child. I found them more and more unsettling. It troubled me how alien these people actually were in a way that I hadn't kind of faced up to as a child or up until my 30s really. And so I started wondering well where do my values, where do my assumptions, where do our ethics come from? Of course it's Christianity. It's Christianity is the great revolutionary process that utterly transformed antiquity. Most of us in the modern West don't even recognize that that revolution ever happened.
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