Jared Zimmerer, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Jared Zimmerer

Jared Zimmerer is the Director of the Word on Fire Institute. He holds an M.A. in theology from Holy Apostles College and Seminary and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in humanities from Faulkner University.

Decay or Rebirth: The Sources of Cultural Progress

By Jared Zimmerer|2020-08-11T16:18:40-05:00August 14th, 2020|Categories: Christianity, Culture, Family, Government, Politics, Religion|

The hope of virtuous social change is a good thing, but the change starts first in the soul of religious conviction and the hearth of the family before government can support and enact positive change. When advocates of social welfare deny the foundations of faith and family, they deny the foundations of progress in any [...]

Christopher Dawson and the Religious Impulse

By Jared Zimmerer|2020-05-23T17:30:06-05:00May 23rd, 2020|Categories: Books, Christianity, Christopher Dawson, Civilization, Culture, Government, History, Religion|

How does religion act as a driving force of politics and culture? Christoper Dawson argued that “we cannot understand the inner form of a society unless we understand its religion,” and we cannot make sense of any culture or its achievements without knowing the religious inspiration from which its creativity flowed. Imagine a diagram consisting [...]