Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings.
This website also uses cookies that can’t be disabled through this tab and will need to be disabled manually. The blog itself uses a commenting system by wpDiscuz which uses a cookie to remember some of the information you put in to save you inputting it every time. It also helps prevent comment spam.
The blog may also feature embedded items such as youtube videos which can set cookies to identify your device and approximate location to optimize bandwith and tailor ads as handled by google.
Our Directory also sets some cookies for the Map to function based on your selection and preferences.
Unfortunately the scripts for these features cannot be placed here for you to disallow the cookies manually, therefore the button on this tab will have no affect.
However if you wish to disable these cookie, you will need to disallow them manually in your browser.
For Google Chrome – Please follow this guide and add this website to the cookie block list: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph21411?locale=en_US
If you need any support with this, or use a different browser you can contact us for advice.
If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again.
Lovely… Thanks Charles.
I haven’t seen this before but now I’ve read it I realise the script writers from The Tudors used a shorter version of this (or something very similar) as the introduction to the final episode, as Old King Hal faces his final days.
Cheeky plotsters. Well, it was Bede V what said it, venerated at the GFG and not forgotten.
The Venemous Bede (remember “1066 And All That”?)is still properly venerated for that vivid and poignant insight, and how interesting that it should be a devout Christian who said that we are utterly ignorant of before and after.
I find it helpful when I hear Christian ministers saying something like that, whilst I’m waiting to go on, rather than the more customary phrases; after all, it doesn’t negate anyone’s faith to say so – in fact, it surely illuminates and stengthens it? It certainly makes it more impressive and comprehensible to this old non-believer.
I’d forgotten that hilariously inappropriate epithet. What a thing to call him! Yes, isn’t TVB’s view of before and after interesting for a man of exemplary devoutness? He was C of E well before his time.
It’s a fab piece. Only used it once, but must re-visit.
Thanks, Charles.
The most important line is Bede’s next one, which says:-
“If, therefore, this new doctrine [ie, Christianity] contains something more certain, it seems justly to deserve to be followed.”
Ah, thank you for that, Marco. (I hadn’t omitted it, I didn’t know about it.)