*grumblesnarlRomanticsgrumblesnarl*
Apr. 5th, 2007 10:53 amSo we have to read Coleridge's Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit (aka Letters on the Inspiration of the Scriptures) for class today. And I'm well aware that Coleridge has a tendency to go off half-cocked about things he's completely misunderstood, although I'm still screaming at him from the margins about getting the doctrine of the inspiration of Scripture wrong.
But is it just Coleridge being a git that leads him to refer to Deborah as "the Hebrew Bonduca" instead of Boudicca, or was he deliberately relying on a romanticized Jacobean play that wasn't even trying to be historically accurate? And if the latter, what does that say about his understanding of Scripture?
But is it just Coleridge being a git that leads him to refer to Deborah as "the Hebrew Bonduca" instead of Boudicca, or was he deliberately relying on a romanticized Jacobean play that wasn't even trying to be historically accurate? And if the latter, what does that say about his understanding of Scripture?