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The Darkening Age : The Christian Destruction of the Classical World by Catherine Nixey (2019, Trade Paperback)

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Their altars were upturned and their temples demolished, their statues hacked to pieces, and their priests killed. It was an annihilation. Authoritative, vividly written, and utterly compelling, this is a remarkable debut from a brilliant young historian.

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A New York Times Notable Book, winner of the Jerwood Award from the Royal Society of Literature, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, and named a Book of the Year by the Telegraph , Spectator , Observer , and BBC History Magazine , this bold new history of the rise of Christianity shows how its radical followers helped to annihilate Greek and Roman civilizations. The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and suppressed the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in centuries of unquestioning adherence to "one true faith."Despite the long-held notion that the early Christians were meek and mild, going to their martyrs' deaths singing hymns of love and praise, the truth, as Catherine Nixey reveals, is very different. Far from being meek and mild, they were violent, ruthless, and fundamentally intolerant. Unlike the polytheistic world, in which the addition of one new religion made no fundamental difference to the old ones, this new ideology stated not only that it was the way, the truth, and the light but that, by extension, every single other way was wrong and had to be destroyed. From the first century to the sixth, those who didn't fall into step with its beliefs were pursued in every possible way: social, legal, financial, and physical. Their altars were upturned and their temples demolished, their statues hacked to pieces, and their priests killed. It was an annihilation.Authoritative, vividly written, and utterly compelling, this is a remarkable debut from a brilliant young historian.

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
1328589285
ISBN-13
9781328589286
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Darkening Age : the Christian Destruction of the Classical World
Author
Catherine Nixey
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Europe / Greece (See Also Ancient / Greece), Christianity / History, Christian Church / History, Ancient / Rome, Ancient / Greece, Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, Christianity / General
Publication Year
2019
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Religion, History
Number of Pages
368 Pages

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7.9 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Item Weight
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Trade
Copyright Date
2019
Dewey Decimal
270.1
Dewey Edition
23

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