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Three books to make you think like Tim Keller: No. 3, ‘Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism’, by Larry Siedentop

By Chris Green on 25/07/2017

This brilliant history of the growth and impact of Christianity in Europe will make your brain fizz.

Posted in: Larry Siedentop, Liberalism, Secularism
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