Christianity

The religious and moral tradition at the center of Why You’re Christian, where it is framed as the often-invisible lineage behind modern Western moral intuitions — the claim being that even values we credit to the Greeks reached us interpreted through a Christian lens (Aristotle through Aquinas, Plato through St. Augustine).

Context: Christianity is the monotheistic religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. Historian Tom Holland has argued that its ethical assumptions — about dignity, equality, and care for the weak — are so deeply embedded in Western culture that even secular moderns reason from premises Christianity introduced.

Where this appears

• Why You’re Christian — the core argument: examine the lineage of your moral beliefs; Western thought, even its Greek inheritance, runs through a Christian interpretive tradition.