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Dominion: A Missing Thread

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St.Ann teaches Mary to read This is a peaen of praise for Tom Holland's godmother, Timothy's mother and grandmother Lois and Eunice and all those other holy women and men who have maintained and spread the cantus firmus of Christian faith, at home, in the school room, in religious houses and universities since the beginning. Search the index of Dominion in vain for education, school , or university; yet you would have no doubt of Tom's love and appreciation of his godly, teacher, godmother; nor would one doubt the debt he owes to the educational establishments for his formation as an historian. Dominion makes a case for Christianity having shaped modern thought so thoroughly, that even those strands that are most hostile to Christian faith have their roots in it. Very convincing it is too; but leave me thinking, "Yes, but what is Christianity? " Much of the history of Christianity -  as seen in the lives of  Christian kings, princes of the Church, crus