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The Age of Utopia: Christendom from the Renaissance to the Russian Revolution

Paradise and Utopia: The Rise and Fall of What the West Once Was, Book 3

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The Age of Utopia: Christendom from the Renaissance to the Russian Revolution

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Continuing the epic of Christendom told in earlier volumes, The Age of Paradise and The Age of Division, the author explains how, between the Italian Renaissance of the 14th century and the Russian Revolution of the 20th, secular humanism displaced Christianity to become the source of modern culture. The result was some of the most illustrious music, science, philosophy, and literature ever produced.

But the cultural reorientation from paradise to utopia—from an experience of the kingdom of heaven to one bound exclusively by this world—all but eradicated the traditional culture of the West, leaving it at the beginning of the 20th century without roots in anything transcendent.

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I am binge reading all the books in this series, such an eloquent recounting of Christian history with both a historical and moral lense. Highly recommend.

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