Neil Dhingra, a Roman Catholic, is a doctoral student in education at the University of Maryland. (His views are solely his own). He is especially interested in Church history, ecumenism, and pedagogy.
One thing that I’ve noticed on this blog is a willingness to criticize inflated claims for the liturgy. But, properly chastened, can we make claims that the liturgy "works," making you a better person?
I’m going to interrupt the regular learned commentary on this site to propose a somewhat ridiculous thought experiment. What if we imagined a religious Milgram experiment? What if the experimenter coldly instructing a subject to punish a failing learner with electroshock had theological authority?