Writing in the West Highland Free Press today, the good Reverend had "The Black Ghost" himself, John Calvin, under examination. Suggesting the best way to understand Calvin, the Reverend advised that we read Calvin's Letters, all 1,163 of them, now handsomely bound in four volumes!
He continued :-
"But there's more to Calvin's view of the human race than belief in its depravity. Calvin was by education a Renaissance humanist who never lost his love for classical culture. Part of the reason for this was that he firmly believed that even pagans still retain the image of God; and over and above this he maintained that God's general grace still reaches every human being. In every area except religion, man's intellect was still reliable, and, thanks to general grace man was still capable of remarkable scientific, political and cultural achievements. Calvin would have thanked God for the pleasure given by the poetry of Sorley Maclean and the music of Mozart".
Sure, Donald, sure. But, the cerebral Sorley apart, what on earth would Renaissance John have made of our prevailing West Highland music culture, best typified by Fergie Macdonald of Acharacle on the box?
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