PanThe Financial TimesChristianity is seen as a brutal force for philistinism and iconoclasm. The Dark Ages are depicted as running the full length of the Middle Ages, only ending with the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. Her consequently dim view of the entire medieval period does not bear examination, since she does not enlarge on it ... Nixey’s account, for all its readable, rumbustious energy, gives no credit to Christianity for its radically transforming message of agape, which counselled not physical destruction but the bringing down of walls of division—between the free and enslaved, men and women, Greek and Roman, Jew and gentile ... To condemn Christianity at its foundations is a counsel of despair as well as poor historical judgment.
