{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Trinity Forum Conversations","title":"How Christianity Remade the World with Tom Holland","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3113,"description":"How Christianity Remade the World\nIn the context of the pagan classical world, the Christian faith was a shocking, even unfathomable inversion of the values systems and structures of the time. In that embattled context, its explosive growth was unimaginable. Today, however, Christianity is often considered boring or backwards.\nHow might we better discern and understand the radicalism of Christianity’s origins, its impact through the centuries, and its enduring formational power? \n\nHistorian Tom Holland’s landmark book Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World, calls attention to these puzzles and paradoxes:\n”Dominion was written as an attempt to stress test my hunch that Christianity really had been the most seismic and revolutionary development, not just really in the history of the West, but probably globally. And  I'm relieved to say that I was satisfied that it had been what I was setting out to show that it had been.” - Tom Holland\nWe trust this conversation will fire your imagination anew, and help you see with new eyes how the inverted values and priorities of God’s kingdom continue to disrupt the patterns of the world, and shape our cultural assumptions.\nThis podcast is an edited version of our Online Conversation recorded in February, 2025. You can access the full conversation with transcript here.\nLearn more about Tom Holland.\n\nTo listen to this or any of our episodes in full, visit ttf.org/podcast and to join the Trinity Forum Society and help make content like this possible, join the Trinity Forum Society\nEpisode Outline\n00:00 Introduction to Dominion and Tom Holland\n03:09 Tom Holland's Journey to Writing Dominion\n03:48 The Alien World of Classical Antiquity\n06:32 The Impact of Christianity on Western Civilization\n07:33 The Crucifixion and its Historical Significance\n10:42 The Uncanny Character of Jesus\n13:13 Early Christian Persecution and Martyrdom\n16:59 Paul's Radical Teachings and their Legacy\n21:37 The Doctrine of Original Sin and...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/LC6b2lFM_r_3xEJCzvD8r7UblHhgtgss5nBJ4X1mqD4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE3OTk3LzE2MTM1/MzUwNjEtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}