I'm afraid St Benedict may be getting the credit credit for this, in much the same way Elon Musk gets the credit for inventing electric cars. See earlier bits on science, reputation and the career as scientist vis-a-vis packaging. Celtic Christianity being the main example of what was going on outside the Romano Christian world, eventually they too were brought into an obedience line such that a millennium later natioanlism = religion. Which if they had done before the English as Norman interceded they never would have been Catholic. The idea itself is well worth discussing.
Shaun as Giles - fantastic - worth wading through all the other heavy philosophical pieces!
I've a response to Gaston at https://whyweshould.substack.com/p/a-wonderful-straightedge-of-a-book
I'm afraid St Benedict may be getting the credit credit for this, in much the same way Elon Musk gets the credit for inventing electric cars. See earlier bits on science, reputation and the career as scientist vis-a-vis packaging. Celtic Christianity being the main example of what was going on outside the Romano Christian world, eventually they too were brought into an obedience line such that a millennium later natioanlism = religion. Which if they had done before the English as Norman interceded they never would have been Catholic. The idea itself is well worth discussing.