October 22, 2018
The seventeenth in a series of draft chapters for a popular-style illustrated coffee-table book about how the Bible has shaped so many facets of our western lives. Feedback is welcomed. The Bible has been blamed for all sorts of violent atrocities including the Crusades, the Inquisition, religious wars, forced conversions and other forms of religious […]
October 15, 2018
The sixteenth in a series of draft chapters for a popular-style illustrated coffee-table book about how the Bible has shaped so many facets of our western lives. Feedback is welcomed. The Bible, with its myths, miracles and fanciful descriptions of angels and demons, has been a major barrier to the emergence of modern science. Only […]
October 8, 2018
The fifteenth in a series of draft chapters for a popular-style illustrated coffee-table book about how the Bible has shaped so many facets of our western lives. Feedback is welcomed In the development of the western concept of time, and of the clocks and calendars invented to measure its progress, the Bible played a mainspring […]
October 2, 2018
The fourteenth in a series of draft chapters for a popular-style illustrated coffee-table book about how the Bible has shaped so many facets of our western lives. Feedback is welcomed For many, the principle of the separation of church and state suggests that religion has no role in modern politics. Democracy, we are told, comes […]
September 24, 2018
The thirteenth in a series of draft chapters for a popular-style illustrated coffee-table book about how the Bible has shaped so many facets of our western lives. Feedback is welcomed Students and professors of the Harvard Law School are reminded daily of the foundations of western law by the Latin words inscribed over the library […]
September 17, 2018
The twelfth in a series of draft chapters for a popular-style illustrated coffee-table book about how the Bible has shaped so many facets of our western lives. Feedback is welcomed No book can compare to the influence the Bible has had on the development of languages and literature: in Europe east and west, in the […]
September 10, 2018
The eleventh in a series of draft chapters for a popular-style illustrated coffee-table book about how the Bible has shaped so many facets of our western lives. Feedback is welcomed. What influence has the Bible had on the development of ethics and morals in western society? Ethics and morals are words often used interchangeably, […]
September 3, 2018
The tenth in a series of draft chapters for a popular-style illustrated coffee-table book about how the Bible has shaped so many facets of our western lives. Feedback is welcomed. When an ambulance rushes through the streets with sirens blaring and lights blazing, ‘common decency’ stops all traffic to make room for this vehicle on […]
August 27, 2018
The ninth in a series of draft chapters for a popular-style illustrated coffee-table book about how the Bible has shaped so many facets of our western lives. Feedback is welcomed. Families and marriages have existed since the start of human history, long before the Bible evolved. Yet the influence of this one book on the […]
August 20, 2018
The eighth in a series of draft chapters for a popular-style illustrated coffee-table book about how the Bible has shaped so many facets of our western lives. Feedback is welcomed. Education today is widely considered the domain of secular governments. Compulsory and universal education is simply taken for granted. But how did these ideas […]
August 13, 2018
The seventh in a series of draft chapters for a popular-style illustrated coffee-table book about how the Bible has shaped so many facets of our western lives. Feedback is welcomed. The motto of the French Revolution, ‘Liberté, égalité, fraternité’, is inscribed on official buildings all over France today. The popular impression is that these values […]
August 6, 2018
The sixth in a series of draft chapters for a popular-style illustrated coffee-table book about how the Bible has shaped so many facets of our western lives. The first chapter proposed that the Bible is the key for understanding Europe. The second, third, fourth and fifth chapters explored the Bible’s influence on western art and […]
