The Venerable Bede (Outstanding Christian Thinkers) - Softcover

Ward, Benedicta

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0225665425 ISBN 13: 9780225665420

Publisher: Geoffrey Chapman and Morehouse Publishing ., 1990

Synopsis

"In a short span this book contrives to be a masterly introduction to one of the major figures of early English history, in all aspects of his scholarship and personality. Students and general readers will find it invaluable, while professional scholars, not least those interested in Bede the historian, will be very grateful for the survey of his scriptural writings. Sister Benedicta combines good judgement with an almost pretematural sympathy for her subject. Her style is lucid and readable, her choice of quotations inspired". Professor Henry Mayr-Harting, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Oxford.

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Review:

Sister Benedicta's book present's Bede's knowledge and experience of these events with a poignant intimacy which both scholars and readers who have no previous knowledge of the period will find arresting and movingR. W. Southern

Synopsis:

Many books have examined the period about which Bede wrote, but this book is concerned with Bede himself in his times. There are chapters on Bede as a monk and priest of Jarrow, as a teacher, scientist and mathematician and as a chronologist who first established the present the present calculation of time. There are also explorations of his historical and hagiographical works. The central chapter of the book examines the Biblical commentaries of Bede, for which he was well known in his own times and which illustrate his theological understanding of the Gospel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Geoffrey Chapman and Morehouse Publishing .
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0225665425
• ISBN 13: 9780225665420
• Binding: Paperback