Bullies and Saints by John Dickson

Author:John Dickson [Dickson, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2021-03-02T00:00:00+00:00

One thing the medieval church cannot be accused of is ignoring the life of the mind. I venture to say that a gifted senior student in the School of Tours in the year 800 could give a modern English-speaking university student a run for their money in matters of grammar and syntax, fluency in a second language, the rules of formal logic, rhetoric, poetry, and even observational astronomy (i.e., calculating the movements of the heavenly bodies). And their handwriting would be vastly superior!

Yet, all that knowledge could not save the church from falling victim to its own stupidity over these same centuries. One element of the “Dark Ages” narrative that cannot be denied is that in its effort to convert the warrior-cultures of pagan Europe, the church itself was transformed into the biggest bully of all. This is the sorry tale I must tell in the next chapter.

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