The Daily Telegraph has published as a separate article an extract from Gareth Russell’s new book on the history of Hampton Court. In it he recounts the circumstances around the 1604 Conference which was held there and which in turn led to the creation of the Authorised Version of the Bible that was eventually published in 1611.
Reading his account of the faction fighting within the Church of England reminds one of the battles of recent years within the General Synod. As with so many things in ecclesiastical history what goes round comes round.
The very enjoyable extract can be read at Sodomy and theology: the feverish birth of the King James Bible
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