How Christianity won the world
This article traces the ideology that allowed Christian civilization to conquer the world. It opens with a view of biblical "national" foundation myths, the Exodus and the Babylonian Exile, and shows how this ideology also allowed for ethnic cleansing, if not genocide, and how those played...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2009
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Scandinavian journal of the Old Testament
Year: 2009, Volume: 23, Issue: 1, Pages: 103-121 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Promised Land
/ Myth
/ Exclusivity
/ Christianity
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| IxTheo Classification: | CA Christianity HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Church
B People of God B Christianity B Exclusivity B Mission (international law |
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| Summary: | This article traces the ideology that allowed Christian civilization to conquer the world. It opens with a view of biblical "national" foundation myths, the Exodus and the Babylonian Exile, and shows how this ideology also allowed for ethnic cleansing, if not genocide, and how those played a dominant role in the mind of western Christians who simply adopted the biblical attitude to foreign nations and their own. A changing perspective including a not so historically dominated reading of the Bible may put an end to the western idea of a God given right to oppress all the nations of the world. |
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| ISSN: | 0901-8328 |
| Contains: | In: Scandinavian journal of the Old Testament
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09018320902853798 |