“The Judeo-Christian heritage, which characteristically has been word-dependent, is contrasted with paganism, which typically has been image-dependent. … [in our day] the image has supplanted the word … A church cut from its word-based heritage and a nation stripped of word-based modes of learning do not have the rhetorical or mental resources to guard against despotism … our image-saturated culture is at risk of being preyed upon by a tyrant in waiting.” –Arthur W. Hunt III (The Vanishing Word, p.26)