The book that made your world : how the Bible created the soul of Western civilization /

Mangalwadi, Vishal.

The book that made your world : how the Bible created the soul of Western civilization / Vishal Mangalwadi. - Nashville, Tenn. : Thomas Nelson, �2011. - xxi, 442 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 404-425) and index.

Prologue : why this journey into the soul of the modern world? -- The soul of Western civilization -- A personal pilgrimage -- The seeds of Western civilization -- The millennium's revolution -- The intellectual revolution -- What made the West the best -- Globalizing modernity.

Vishal Mangalwadi, an Indian philosopher, takes readers on a historical journey through the last millennium, exploring why and how the Bible reformed Europe and made the West a uniquely thinking civilization: technical and tolerant, scientific and free, just and prosperous. --from publisher description.

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Bible--Influence--Western civilization.
Bible--Influence--Modern civilization.


Christianity and culture--India.
Christian civilization.

BS 538.7 / .M36 2011