First Things RSS Feed - Francis Martin https://www.firstthings.com/author/francis-martin en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:54:41 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/francis-martin 60 Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus https://www.firstthings.com/article/2000/04/desire-of-the-everlasting-hills-the-world-before-and-after-jesus https://www.firstthings.com/article/2000/04/desire-of-the-everlasting-hills-the-world-before-and-after-jesus Sat, 01 Apr 2000 00:00:00 -0500 This is the third volume in a projected seven“volume series entitled The Hinges of History, in which Thomas Cahill means “to retell the story of the Western world as the story of the great gift“givers, those who entrusted to our keeping one or another of the singular treasures that make up the patrimony of the West.” The previous volumes” How the Irish Saved Civilization and The Gifts of the Jews ”were extremely popular, and Cahill follows the same basic format here, presenting an introductory description of the world in which the gift“giver appears, a history of the protagonist (in the first volumes a people, not an individual), and finally an assessment of the gift“giver’s lasting effects on history.

Continue Reading »

]]>