The Reading Chair: “Dominion” by Tom Holland
9 min readMar 31, 2021
In which we consider an agnostic’s strong argument for Christianity’s role in human moral progress.
Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World (Basic Books) by British historian Tom Holland is a rich, colorful and — but for one glaring flaw — absorbing epic history of Christianity and its ideas, uniquely told from a liberal-left perspective.