Research

Research turns up the most amazing things. 

I came across this little historical tidbit in the process of writing an essay earlier in the year, but it came up again in my study for a Reformation Church History exam next week. It’s taken from The Later Reformation in England 1547-1603, by Diarmaid MacCulloch (1968), in the context of continental theological divisions that existed between Lutherans and Calvinists in England:

“Amid these divisions, there were distinctive English theological priorities, but the English added little that was original; indeed, the English lack of capacity for abstract theological invention is so marked through national history as to constitute a dangerously plausible argument for persistent national characteristics.“