Christianity and the World: Essays Philosophical, Historical and Cultural

Illiteracy regarding Christianity's impact upon the world is hardly limited to non-Christians. It is endemic throughout our culture. This mass ignorance is made that much more painful by the fact that, for the better part of the last two millennia, the collective consciousness of what is today known as Western civilization or "the West," i.e. European civilization, has been informed by the religion of Christianity. Thus, for no small measure of this time the West was known by its own inhabi...