Discover how the Bible became the West's source of human rights, justice, heroism, optimism, compassion, capitalism, family and morality.
In the 1960s many from the West went to the East in search of spiritual wisdom. The Book That Made Your World reverses the journey. Vishal Mangalwadi, an Indian philosopher, takes readers on a historical journey through the last millennium, exploring why and how the Bible reformed Europe and made the West a uniquely thinking civilisation: technical and tolerant, scientific and free, just and prosperous. Readers will learn:
Why an American president puts his hand on the Bible to take the oath of a secular office
What forced British monarchs from Henry VIII to James I to submit to the Bible's authority
Why Bible translators Wycliffe, Luther and Tyndale became history's greatest revolutionaries
How the Bible globalised western education
464 pages
In the 1960s many from the West went to the East in search of spiritual wisdom. The Book That Made Your World reverses the journey. Vishal Mangalwadi, an Indian philosopher, takes readers on a historical journey through the last millennium, exploring why and how the Bible reformed Europe and made the West a uniquely thinking civilisation: technical and tolerant, scientific and free, just and prosperous. Readers will learn:
Why an American president puts his hand on the Bible to take the oath of a secular office
What forced British monarchs from Henry VIII to James I to submit to the Bible's authority
Why Bible translators Wycliffe, Luther and Tyndale became history's greatest revolutionaries
How the Bible globalised western education
464 pages