Necessary Bishop
John Robinson, 3 July 1980
Ahead of his Age: Bishop Barnes of Birmingham
by John Barnes.
Collins, 487 pp., £12.95, November 1979,0 00 216087 0 Show More
by John Barnes.
Collins, 487 pp., £12.95, November 1979,
“... for nearly thirty years Bishop of Birmingham, an office to which he was nominated by Ramsay MacDonald, who also appointed Hewlett Johnson as ‘red’ Dean of Canterbury. Barnes’s career could scarcely have been more different from that of another near-contemporary who was also a scientist, theologian and prophet – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. While ... ”