Oliver M. T. O’Donovan correctly countered such a fear and blanket accusation by asserting: “In fact, the search for diversity is as much the result of a prior methodological decision as is the search for harmony, and cannot be defended on purely empirical grounds. Empirical investigation reveals [both] points of diversity and points of harmony.”4 To gain some insight and a possible vantage point from which to evaluate the emphases and tendencies of our own era, let us briefly look at what has happened