Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World Holiday House from age to race to

from age to race to sexuality to class

arguing that the pervasive sexualization of eros limits human flourishing

a faded hotel haunted by a girl who dissolved in the water tank on the roof

and in concert with the themes of his novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World Holiday House from age to race toA New York Times Notable Book, winner of the Jerwood Award from the Royal Society of Literature, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, and named a Book of the Year by the Telegraph, Spectator, Observer, and BBC History Magazine, this bold new history of the rise of Christianity shows how its radical followers helped to annihilate Greek and Roman civilizations. The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion