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Review: Seven Revolutions: How Christianity Changed the World and Can Change It Again by Mike Aquilina and James L. Papandrea

Review: Seven Revolutions: How Christianity Changed the World and Can Change It Again Mike Aquilina and James L. Papandrea Image 2015 Decided to give this one a try, despite the title, and discovered a good read in the process.   The authors make the case for some rather dramatic societal changes during the early AD (CE, for those that prefer that) centuries; changes that prompted new ideas related to human dignity, family values, community relations, work, death and even politics that have been directly related to Christian practices and teachings.   The changes in perspectives still have influence today and most of us reading this enjoy the benefits of those changes whether we realize it or not.   Things were not always are they are now.   That should not be news, but it was something I found myself having to remember again and again when I read this book.      That’s the gist of what is discussed in this book, and the authors have...