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Sofia, Reviews

Review: Hildegard of Bingen by Fiona Maddocks

Anne Ashworth reviews Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of her Age by Fiona Maddocks, Faber (London 2001, paperback 2013). 332 pages. £12.99. In twelfth century Europe, the Church was almost coterminous with civilisation. Popes, archbishops,...

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Part of a Pilgrimage 4

Lord Acton Part of a Pilgrimage 4 Final extract from Anne Ashworth’s Journal July 1993 Reading David Hay on the Alister Hardy Research Centre, I ask myself how I would reply if selected for questioning...

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Sofia, Poetry

A Different Look

The houses wear a different look tonight, On the qui vive, alert. They're just the same As yesterday, through the same window frame, Yet in this light Look like a bride signing a first time...

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The Oldest Girl

To write that a novel starts with ‘attack’ may be dismissed as critics’ journalese. In this case the word is strictly accurate. The preliminary chapter is a fierce attack on the kind of Roman Catholic...

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Part of a Pilgrimage 3

January 1991 (continued) Theology has led me into a-theology; liberal Christianity has become Cupittian non-realism. So I am now paralysed by the impossibility of using traditional church language, and conscious as a preacher of the...

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Part of a Pilgrimage 2

Sofia 99 March/April 2011 22 September 1986 Precisely ten years since my commissioning. I have been re-living that service. The hymns: Be thou my vision, O lord of my heart, Naught be all else to...

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Part of a Pilgrimage

Background Between 1980 and 1997 I kept, sporadically, a spiritual journal. Entries were only made when I was deeply moved by some experience or idea. In the early 1970s, having returned to church attendance in...

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Poetic Tales

This book’s title is taken from William Blake, who clearly understood that gods are a human creation, ‘poetic tales’. The subtitle is Logosofia, which means Word Wisdom and was coined by Coleridge. It combines the...

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Anne Ashworth reviews Darwin: A Life in Poems

ISBN: 9781846941351. reviews He collected the facts, came to the inescapable conclusions, changed our world view forever. The BBC’s Darwin season has probably provided most of us with an outline of his life. We have...

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The Over-Reachers

Getting above themselves, they built a tower – trying to reach the god above the sky – and tumbled into Babel. So Icarus, maddened with science-power, scorched as he learned to fly. The same old...

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