The Book that Made Your World by Vishal Mangalwadi

When I chose this book to review, I had the completely wrong idea about it.  I was expecting a simplified "Did you know...?" approach to the impact the Bible has had on modern day civilization. This was definitely the wrong impression. Vishal Mangalwadi's book is more of a mixture of personal anecdotes alongside broad strokes of history that illustrate the contributions of the Bible to the realms of philosophy, technology, education, and politics.

Reading Mangalwadi's account of the Indian perspective of the Bible was fascinating and illuminating. In writing this book, he is facing head-on a main charge from many secularists today: mainly, that the Bible is a harmful force in society, a force that deconstructs and overturns culture and knowledge. Mangalwadi, through his account of history, illustrates the vital role the Bible has played in developing Western civilization.

I think this book is a solid resource for Christians who desire to know how the Bible impacted Western civilization. I would not, however, reccomend the book to those who disagree as Mangalwadi's bias is very strong throughout the book. I also disliked how strictly Protestant the book was. I would have enjoyed more on the impact of different traditions as well.  Mangalwadi's writing also gets bogged down by lengthy quotes at some points. I read this as an e-book, and sometimes they are more distracting in that format than in print.

I recieved this book from Booksneeze for review, and gave my honest opinion.