Table of Contents--Introduction

1. Introduction


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		1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 A GLIMPSE OF EVOLUTION 1.1.1 In Search of History: Using the Text 1.2 Universal Histories: The Old Testament Enigma 1.2.1 Decoding Modernity: In Search of Evolution 1.2.2 Decline and Fall 1.2.3 Discovery of The Axial Age 1.2.4 The Rise of the Modern: A Second Axial Age? 1.3 A Riddle Resolved: The Eonic Effect

			Introduction
			The Introduction gives a snapshot of the whole book, showing how a simple bird's eye view of world history shows an unexpected pattern of evidence, the eonic effect. The sense of universal history given to us by Biblical historicism needs to be understood in a new way and along the lines of the picture given to us by modern archaeology and historiography, one of whose most spectacular discoveries is of the Axial Age. From this perspective, the riddle of the Old Testament remains as a challenge to conventional ideas of 'flat history'. The views of Toynbee and Spengler, despite their remaining interest are too focused on the 'civilization', yet we begin to see that the real entity of interest is something more elusive, intervals of sudden transformation, so visible in the data of the Axial Age. As we examine world history in a new way, its relationship to the question of evolution arises, and we confronted with the evidence of an evolutionary aspect to our history.

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