The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: British Expositors Exhibit Greater Independence

It has seemed desirable to complete the sequence of Continental expositors to the eleventh century, and then to take up the prophetic expositors of Britain, from Bede onward, in a single chapter, since they were more independent. And inasmuch as the beginnings of British Christianity, little known generally, had a bearing on this spirit of independence, it may be well to take a backward glance over the historical development and relationships of the church in Britain during the first seven centuries as a background for Bede and the other interpreters to follow. PFF1 595.1