BOOK THAT MADE YOUR WORLD THE

Discover how the Bible became the West's source of human rights, justice, heroism, optimism, compassion, capitalism, family, and morality.

In the 1960s many from the West went to the East in search of spiritual wisdom. The Book That Made Your World reverses the journey. 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 civilisation: technical and tolerant, scientific and free, just and prosperous.

Readers will learn:

• Why an American president puts his hand on the Bible to take the oath of a secular office
• What forced British monarchs from Henry VIII to James I to submit to the Bible's authority
• Why Bible translators Wycliffe, Luther, and Tyndale became history's greatest revolutionaries
• How the Bible globalized western education

"This is an extremely significant piece of work with huge global implications. Vishal brings a timely message." (Ravi Zacharias, author, Walking from East to West and Beyond Opinion)

"The Indian perspective is a breath of fascinating fresh air for American readers. I wish and pray that it finds readers willing to have their minds shaken and their hearts, yes, their hearts, stirred as well." (James W. Sire, author, The Universe Next Door and Habits of the Mind)

"With solid, detailed information, clarity of presentation, and logical force, Vishal Mangalwadi enables anyone willing to see how our 'Western' world depends entirely upon what the Bible, and it alone, teaches about reality and how to live." (Dallas Willard, author, The Divine Conspiracy and The Great Omission).

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ISBN   1595555455
EAN   9781595555458
Pages   464
Department   Academic
Category   Scripture
Publisher   Thomas Nelson Publishers
Publication Date   Oct 2012
Dimensions   34 x 153 x 230mm
Weight   0.515kg