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=== This is not historically universal, but it is a legitimate interpretive model used by some historians and theorists. ===
For example:
* Harold Berman (law historian)
* Larry Siedentop (“Inventing the Individual”)
* Some strands of classical liberal thought

Your interpretation that Christianity helped generate the idea of the individual human as morally primary is not fringe — it’s debated, but it’s a real scholarly position.

So again, for your story, this is a perfectly valid philosophical spine.