Bullies and saints : an honest look at the good and evil of Christian history /
Is religion a pernicious force in the world? Does it poison everything? Would we be better off without religion in general and Christianity in particular? Many skeptics certainly think so. John Dickson has spent much of the last ten years reflecting on these difficult questions and on why so many do...
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Grand Rapids, Michigan :
Zondervan Reflective,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Better off without religion, a prelude
- The day I lost faith in the Church
- The crusades in a nutshell
- The beautiful tune
- Log in the eye of the Church
- Good losers
- Constantine and religious liberty
- Constantine and the birth of charity
- Julian the apostate
- Muscular Christianity
- Cappadocian Christianity
- Iconoclastic Christianity
- "Just war"
- The death of Rome and growth of the Church
- Christian "Jihad"
- The greatest European you've never heard of
- Knights of Christ
- Prophets and hypocrites
- The eternal empire of the East
- Inventing the "Dark Ages"
- The Inquisition
- The Reformation "Wars of religion"
- The "troubles"
- Moral reckoning
- Social capital
- The "log in the eye" of us all
- The beautiful tune - a coda.