The Einstein of Early Christendom
Bede believed in a discoverable world, as did Einstein. Divine revelation did not mean, in Bede’s case, simply receiving wisdom but, instead, required human beings to search the visible signs of God’s creation.
‘Bede and the Theory of Everything’
By Michelle P. Brown
Reaktion Books, 312 pages
Michelle Brown places Bede (circa 673-735), often given the honorific of “venerable,” in the company of Albert Einstein, who declared: “I want to know how God created this world. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are just details.”
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