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  • Non-fiction
  • 2025

The builder's stone

how Jews and Christians built the West -- and why only they can save it

Melanie Phillips, (1951-)

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"Western civilization is facing a critical moment. Foreign enemies sensing its weakness are circling. Internally, the West is being consumed by division, decadence, and demoralization. The October 7 attack on Israel presented it with a choice between civilization and barbarism -- a challenge the West has failed. But this damaged society is far from lost if it takes advice from an unexpected source. Western culture is based upon Christianity, whose own foundations in turn lie in Judaism. The unique survival of the Jewish people offers both the West and its struggling Christian church, as well as secular people who shun religion, priceless lessons in resilience that they must learn if their culture is to survive."--

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Title Statement The builder's stone: how Jews and Christians built the West -- and why only they can save it / Melanie Phillips.
Author Phillips, Melanie, 1951-
Publication New York: Wicked Son, and imprint of Post Hill Press,[2025]©2025
Extent of Item 307 pages ;
ISBN 9798895650349 (trade paperback)
Other Number pr08045392
Summary "Western civilization is facing a critical moment. Foreign enemies sensing its weakness are circling. Internally, the West is being consumed by division, decadence, and demoralization. The October 7 attack on Israel presented it with a choice between civilization and barbarism -- a challenge the West has failed. But this damaged society is far from lost if it takes advice from an unexpected source. Western culture is based upon Christianity, whose own foundations in turn lie in Judaism. The unique survival of the Jewish people offers both the West and its struggling Christian church, as well as secular people who shun religion, priceless lessons in resilience that they must learn if their culture is to survive."--
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By Topic Civilization, Western--Christian influences
Civilization, Western--Jewish influences
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