#JesusToo: Christianity is keeping us radical, says historian

Christianity is the “greatest revolutionary movement” the western world has ever seen, paving the way for secularism, the civil rights movement, the Beatles and even #MeToo, according to a radical new history of the religion. In his book Dominion: the Making of the Western Mind, the historian and documentary presenter Tom Holland argues that Christianity is a major catalyst for transformation. Far from being conservative and static, as its critics say, it “repeatedly sends out pulses of energy that rip up society”, he argues. Holland, 51, says Christianity has two deeply subversive ideas at its heart: that all people are equal and that the weak are heroic. “The first is there in Genesis: that God created every man and woman in his image, giving an…