BIBLION MAGAZINE INTERACTIVE EDITION (EN) #7 / JAN-MAR 2018 | Page 15

B I B L I O N - ENGLISH VERSION In antithesis, the great opponent to Hitler’s imperial conquest, Winston Churchill, always acted in defense of the Christian civilization. The British statesman’s own life is proof that history is made by energetic people that strive for the impossible. Jeremiah Johnston answers to the great questions about how the world would be, with and without Christianity. What was it that Romans didn’t like about Christianity? What is the value of life and human dignity? What made Christianity irresistible? What this book shows to us and to the skeptics is that nothing would be the same without the existence of Jesus and the Chris- tian movement that grew around Him. Yes, because up to the first twenty years of the first century, there wasn’t any of this Christianity thing going on. It was His miracles and hea- ling power, but above all the reality of Jesus’ resurrection, that everything changed. The Jesus factor. This Jesus factor contributed to the aboli- tion of slavery, thanks to men like William Wilberforce and John Wesley, to the resolving of international conflicts, to the end of dis- crimination and inequality concerning sex, ethnicity and religion, and to the establish- ment of public education systems, including for those with disabilities. In the ancient world there was no “huma- nitarian help,” but the first Christians learned with the Jesus factor how to take in the outcasts and the sojourners, building the communal shelters of medical care – the hospitals of our days. www.biblion.pt 15