Tom Holland on Christianity as Blasphemous Parody of the Worship of Caesar #Dominion

Tom Holland demonstrates that history writes the best literature. Unfortunately many historians don't write for a popular audience. Tom began by wanting to write fiction but fell in love with history and hasn't turned back. Along the way he was grabbed by the beauty of Christianity and has been trying to figure out how it changed the world and is changing himself. He graciously gave me a couple of hours for a conversation.

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Dominion https://amzn.to/39DFa1X

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Inspiring Philosophy: Evolutionary vs Revolutionary Monotheism

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Notes Jesus as Greatest short story writer of all time Persian Fire “We can’t really trust them” Blood and Thunder The inherently mythic One god, one empire, emperors auditioning gods God has auditioned himself twice to covenants Muslim God does not bind himself to covenants The figure of the calif and the figure of the The separation of law from direct Does that roman posture relate to the islamic posture? The divine and the human is interfused That one God has given a framework of law that has given his presence to be everywhere Pay taxes to the romans? Render unto caesar Tension between the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of earth Xianity emerges as a consciousness of itself as a parody of the Augustan empire It’s in the blasphemy that true holiness is to be found Blasphemous parody of the worship of caesar Two cities Kingdom of heaven and the earthly kingdom, the saeculum, the limit of human memory Dimension of saeculum is a dimension of flux The ropeladder that the church provides the religio Earthly autocrats are not complicit in the dimension of the eternal 11th century, Europe’s first revolution: reformating, remaking society in an individual Christian To rebirth Christendom, to no longer have a stake in the supernatural The saeculum has been secularized, it no longer has the theological context that Augustine has given it. The more that Protestants, the more the divine can be bled out of the rest of society. Zionism is a way to reverse it. Turkey, Western power is retreating and what was projected is more shadowy Is it possible to resacralize their world?

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