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,
“... from that of another near-contemporary who was also a scientist, theologian and prophet – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. While Teilhard worked in obscurity, wrote copiously but could publish nothing, Barnes sat in the seats of influence, if not of power, at Trinity College, Cambridge, the Temple, Westminster Abbey, the Royal Society and the House of ... ”