The Role of the Church in Preserving Order
Rod Dreher, on The Dallas Morning News Religion blog, congratulates two TDMN employees for winning Nieman fellowships that allow them to study anything they want at Harvard. Rod Dreher dreams of studying the fall of the Roman Empire:
"I'm interested to know particularly the role of the Church in maintaining some kind of order in the wake of empire's fall, and what lessons might be pertinent to contemporary America."When you start a study with a thesis already predetermined, you don't really learn much. You tend to just line up sources that fit your prejudices. In Dreher's case, only if he ends up discovering that the Church was part of the problem and not the salvation of Western civilization, can he be confident of knowing that he really opened his mind to new knowledge.
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