Hello again.
Edinburgh went well. I was there to look through material in the Haldane Papers at the National Library of Scotland. Richard Haldane was a lawyer, politician and prestigious (and prodigious when he had the opportunity) amateur philosopher who was Secretary of State for War between 1905 and 1912, and whose reforms to the Army between 1905 and 1908 form an integral part of my doctoral thesis. There was plenty of material to look through. I'm hoping that without overdoing it, at least one set of letters I looked at can provide a supporting structure to my general hypothesis.
Back now for a week or so before I head off to Cornwall for a week's holiday. Not much blogging to be done (v. busy), but can I point anyone who reads this to the 'Archbishop Cranmer' blog. 'Cranmer', whose identity is a semi-open secret among some I'm told, blogs on politics, religion (from a strongly Christian perspective) and the intersection between the two. Nowadays in the increasingly secular society we live ('secular' in the American constitutional rather than atheistic sense), the intersection and interaction between those two topics is often downplayed if not agitated against. However it is an area worth thinking about. Christ was clear that there should be a division between civil government and faith organisation. Matthew 22:21 is possibly the clearest example here. It's an interesting, occasionally provocative blog, and I would encourage people to read it.
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