Ebook: The evolution of the West: how Christianity has shaped our values

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Why the West is different; 2 A Christian nation; 3 Trouble with the law: Magna Carta and the limits of the law; 4 Christianity and democracy: friend and foe; 5 Saving humanism from the humanists; 6 Christianity and atheism: a family affair; 7 The accidental midwife: the emergence of a scientific culture; 8 'No doubts as to how one ought to act': Darwin's doubts and his faith; 9 The religion of Christianity and the religion of human rights; 10 The secular self.