Status Updates From Founders of the Middle Ages...

A hard take from pagan to the religious. My first feel of the book’s rationale is literature progresses from the pagan to the Christian. But I’m thinking that this sort of narrowed argument leaves open the natural progression continuing from christian to a scientific era. Perhaps by end of book I may find the the very erudite author pulls it together into a more inclusive literature — still developing….?

St Jerome: It is generally admitted that only a doctor should practice medicine and only a carpenter build a house. The art of searching the scriptures is the only one that everybody is sure that he possesses.

As we glance over the early Christian centuries, then,
we may well ask in the name of progress and modernity,
what had the Church to do with an outworn culture?
Conscious of a new revelation and of modem needs,
what should it do but leave the dead past to its dead
and press on?