Blog: Bluetooth and Christian Unity

Schola Affectus writes in his latest blog: I was in Copenhagen for the first time last week and was fascinated by many things. Not least the history of Denmark and the impact of the Viking Age (793-1066). These incredible navigators landed in North America 500 years before Columbus. As we also know they did a lot raping and pillaging.

I think particularly interesting is the gradual emergence out of a violent pagan culture, into the unifying and eventually pacifying force of Christianity. This has been dramatised by the fascinating Netflix series 'The Last Kingdom' which covers the partial Viking Conquest of Britain and the fightback of the Christian King, Alfred the Great. As told in the Saxon Chronicles of Bernard Cornwall, it was a time of uniting disparate kingdoms and the Birth of England. With Christianity came learning and writing, which mystified the Vikings who dismissed this as sorcery at first, but came to understand its significance, not least as a reliable way of disseminating orders.

To read on see: https://sjsa.wordpress.com/2019/03/07/christian-unity-and-bluetooth/