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August 22, 2005
War and the Rumors of War -- literally
He was then sent to Woburn Abbey, where he produced two rumours a day for inclusion in otherwise correct reports.A throwaway line about war service from one of those splendid British obituaries, this the Daily Telegraph on W.H.C. Frend, whose mid-20th century take on Donatism is considerably less respected nowadays (and considerably more driven by his Low Church anti-papist background) than the author conveys. Frend never met a heresy he didn't suppose was driven by economic or class reasons rather than theological opinon; that's a form of argumentation much like modern political controversialists assuming their opponents to be insincere in their beliefs and very annoying. Well-worth reading, though. He was an important scholar and a fine man.
Here's the Church Times version.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at August 22, 2005 2:02 PM