Mario Kasih

This is a truly ambitious book. The breadth & depth of its undertaking is astounding. To draw vast, inter-twined connections from antiquities til now, to explain the origins of the Western mind, how it came to be as it is today. The book, despite of its grand objective, however, is accessible to the lay person with no astute background of history. It’s a history book written with verve. Scholarship married with engaging storytelling. If this book could be lauded by both the Guardian (UK) as well as Christianity Today… the “it’s hard to overstate the importance of Holland’s book,” as the late Tim Keller said. I *highly* recommend all to buy this book in paperback, instead of ebook formats, or even audio formats. The voluminous content is quite daunting, but once you’ve started… you could flip 100 pages in one seating. It’s a thoroughly engaging read. But it’s not an easy one. This book will definitely challenge you to rethink many of your cherished presuppositions and assumptions. Buy one for yourself, and buy another for your friend with whom you discuss history, politics and philosophy. You might just hand them one of the best and most influential history books in this century.