In May AD 597, 1400 years ago, a young sicilian monk called Augustine disembarked at Ebbsfleet, in south-east Kent, an event which was to change the development of christianity and culture in this country for all time. It had taken St. Augustine and his 20 or 30 companions a year to travel from Rome, where they had been specially selected by Pope Gregory the Great to convert Anglo-Saxon Britain and to restore contract with the early Celtic Church. This is an account of Augustine's journey arrival and seven year missionary life in England. His work had a truly profound and lasting effect upon Christianity's development in England, especially in the region of Kent. The book is well-supported by documentary evidence that puts Green's account beyond doubt.
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A very thin book, for a price far too high. The information could have been more packed and made interesting, and have been worth the price. But it wasn't. There were only the barest, baldest details. And what there was was mostly hagiorphora, with overblown tales of the saints, primarily Augustine. Not that the miraculous can't occur, and that some don't experience more of the miraculous than others. But one needs a discriminating palate, and not simply swallowing wholesale every legend of a saint. That's the taste you get in this book. There is little here to help us understand what Augustine went through; there is nothing here to suggest any error in his ways or anything short of perfection. The book is constantly filled with comments like "Augustine probably would have viewed" or "The Pope would likely have seen"- with no evidence to indicate the author's suppositions.
I plan to give this book away.
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- Christian Symbols, Ancient Roots by Elizabeth Rees on page 75
- Christian Travelers Guide to Great Britain, The by Irving Hexham on page 62
- Saracens and the Making of English Identity: The Auchinleck Manuscript (Studies in Medieval History and Culture) by Siobhain Bly Calkin in Back Matter
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