BIBLION MAGAZINE INTERACTIVE EDITION (EN) #7 / JAN-MAR 2018 | Page 12

JESUS WHAT OUR WORLD WOULD BE LIKE WITHOUT CHRISTIANITY Jesus Factor The Jeremiah J. Johnston D r. Jeremiah J. Johnston, a professor, scholar and public speaker, guides us on a journey through the history of mankind as he weighs, based on an enormous variety of perspectives, the impact that the Bible and the Christian faith have had throughout the centuries. THE AUTHOR SHOWS us how the world was before Jesus and the Christian movement were first born, when poverty, slavery, pros- titution, and women and child abuse were common. The rise of Christianity gave the world a new path, bringing a huge improve- ment in the society’s overall quality of life, especially in the lower social strata. Suffering, fear and inequality ran rampant back then. The people were hostages of pain and disease, desperate for a cure, fearful of death and hell in a society fractured between freemen and slaves, rich and poor, men and women. Even racism faded while Christianity swept through Europe and the Roman Empire. In U N I M AG I N A B L E , B Y J e r emia h J . J o h n s o n . P U B L I S H E D B Y B e t h an y H o u s e , A DA , M I - E UA 12 BIBLION #7