Anglican communion and the monarch

[GKC]

An Anglican is no more obliged to defend Henry VIII than a Roman Catholic is obliged to defend the Borgias.

Though Hank is certainly a fascinating train wreck.

GKC

 

[jimkhong]

Though Hank is certainly a fascinating train wreck.

GKC

He defintiely makes a better read than the Borgias. If Shakespeare were to live a century later, there would have been a play on Henry VIII - but would it have been tragedy, history or comedy - or all three?

 

[GKC]

He defintiely makes a better read than the Borgias. If Shakespeare were to live a century later, there would have been a play on Henry VIII - but would it have been tragedy, history or comedy - or all three?

Well, there is, at least as a collaboration (likely). It’s mostly history, through Tudor lenses.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII_%28play%29

GKC

 

[jimkhong]

Well, there is, at least as a collaboration (likely). It’s mostly history, through Tudor lenses.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII_%28play%29

GKC

One written without the daughter’s censors hanging around would be good.

 

[GKC]

One written without the daughter’s censors hanging around would be good.

Even so. But it is what it is. Whatever that is.

GKC

 

[seanman611]

An Anglican is no more obliged to defend Henry VIII than a Roman Catholic is obliged to defend the Borgias.

This is the point that I try to make thread after thread on Henry VIII and Anglicanism.

 

[GKC]

This is the point that I try to make thread after thread on Henry VIII and Anglicanism.

I’ve been known to allude to it, over the past 10 years, myself.

GKC