It would be extraordinarily time-consuming, if not impossible, to even attempt to list all of the ways that Christianity is responsible for the creation and development of Western civilization as we know it. Christianity is why the West is literate. It’s why we had the Industrial Revolution. It’s why we have a functioning legal system. All of these achievements, of course, trace to many different individual causes — the contributions of many individual Christian nations, leaders, monasteries, universities, the Crusades, and so on.
But there was one Christian innovation that, all by itself, had a direct, observable, and enduring impact on the trajectory of Western civilization. And while this particular innovation isn’t discussed very much — or at least, it hasn’t been discussed very much in recent history — that’s about to change.
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