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Originally Posted by py3ak I read it a few years ago. This was I thought at the time, but I no longer have it so I can't check my impressions. Quote: |
This was a mixed bag. Some essays had good content and excellent style. Others made weird points badly. Some of them were just flat –perhaps trying too hard to work in "medievalism" in any way (e.g., the one about Beowulf). Highlights were, The Font of Laughter, Worshipping with Body, A Good Wife and A Welcoming Hearth and Poetic Knowledge. The poems in the back are repulsively bad –but there are interesting quotes (though the dependence on C.S. Lewis makes one wonder how much actual original study lies behind the book). It gives one an appreciation for Langland. I learned that free men in Alfred's reign were to be given 31 vacation days a year (that would include some sabbaths, so I don't know how many it would actually work out to). Saying the Creeds missed the boat on Sola Scriptura.
| | Thanks Reuben, that is just what I was looking for. Would you say that there is a bit of "high-churchism" in the book and FV worship practices? | Could you define what you mean by FV worship practices?
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