Dominion

This history argues that Christian beliefs about the person, mercy, and equality reshaped the moral vocabulary of the West, and that even secular modern politics still thinks with that inheritance. Holland moves from the ancient Near East and the Roman world through the medieval church, the Reformation, and later revolutions, showing how crucifixion, charity, and the idea of the weak as worthy altered what power had to justify. The book is a long-span intellectual and cultural history, not a church chronicle of councils and not a work of theology.

Three-quarter bound in black cloth gilt blocked with title on spine, printed and design blocked metallic cream cloth front cover designed by Noma Bar. Plain slipcase.