In honour of Commonwealth Day, here are the top 20 most rousing and heroic British Empire films ever made. Watch these one a day, make it an empire month.
Top one:
1) The Four Feathers (1939)
2) Guns of Batasi (1964)
3) Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
4) Gunga Din (1939)
5) Zulu (1964)
6) Khartoum (1966)
7) The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
8) Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
9) Rogue’s March (1953)
10) Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)
11) The Little Princess (1939)
12) The Bandit of Zhobe (1959)
13) The Miracle (1959)
14) The Stranglers of Bombay (1959)
15) Zarak (1957)
16) The Brigand of Kandahar (1965)
17) Darling Lili (1970)
18) North West Frontier, aka, Flame Over India (1959)
19) Khyber Patrol (1954)
20) That Hamilton Woman (1941)
-produced by Winston Churchill
BONUS
21) Bengal Brigade, aka. Bengal Rifles (1954)
Let’s end like we began, on a high note. This movie was made as a “love letter” to the British Empire:
22) The Sun Never Sets (1939)
Available for rent at Amazon. Also online video sources.
Available for rent at Amazon and YouTube. Also online video sources.
One of the great 16c. questions is the inspiration for post-Reformation Anglican view of Eucharist.
In this🧵we trace it to Ratramnus of Corbey (868AD) and Aelfric of Eynsham (955AD), great medieval opponents of Romish transubstantiation (& thru them directly to Church Fathers).
1. "the Doctrine of Ratramnus was the very same Doctrine which the Church of England embraced, as most consonant to Scripture and the Fathers"
-1688 English ed. of Ratramnus: books.google.com/books?id=ZshBA…
2. "In the 10th c. some [assumed] the fancy that in the Sacrament is Christ's Natural Body, the one which he took of the Holy Virgin, suffer'd on the Cross, &c. Others followed the Catholick Faith of the Ancient Church, that it is Christ's Spiritual Body" books.google.com/books?id=ZNFCA…
A 🧵on the unexpected emergence of atheism in Elizabethan England, after the Reformation.
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Concerns w/ Late Medieval piety leading to paganism, idolatry and superstition are well known. Less known is the opposite: disappearance of religion as such, in parts of Elizabethan England. It isn’t well known bc. the Anglican divines fixed it, through a series of reforms.
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Millar Maclure documents this episode in “Paul’s Cross Sermons 1534-1642” (1958):
A 🧵 on Christ’s Descent in the English Reformation👇
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The “descensus” clause in the Creed formed of of several flashpoints between the orthodox Anglican Divines, and dissenters. Divorce, liturgy, episcopacy, and the sacraments and rites of the Church being others.
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Adam Hill, above, was a prominent champion of orthodoxy.