Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deductionstudying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agonydecaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twentiesthe men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.
