Tom Holland vs AC Grayling - Did Christianity give us our human values?
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Historian Tom Holland debates atheist philosopher AC Grayling in a lively edition of The Big Conversation.
They discuss whether Christians preserved or destroyed classical thought and whether the West owes its values of human dignity and equality to Greek and Enlightenment thinkers or to the Christian revolution.
For AC Grayling’s ‘The History of Philosophy’ https://www.amazon.co.uk/History-Philosophy-C-Grayling/dp/0241304539
For Tom Holland’s ‘Dominion’ https://www.amazon.com/Dominion-Christian-Revolution-Remade-World/dp/0465093507
For The Big Conversation Season 2: www.thebigconversation.show
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Released on 6 Dec 2019
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