

Doctoral candidate in historical and systematic theology at the University of Aberdeen. I write about John Wesley most of the time.
…making, applicable only within a self-limiting geography, and highly sensitive to political change. Indeed, they are not really dates at all, so much as synchronisms between multiple events, coordinating a network of better and lesser-known occurrences: what is being dated, and what dates it, belong to the same order of things. Imagine giving the date of the invasion of Iraq, your grandma’s birth or American independence in …
…d sounds. They look straight past the words into the meaning that they have strong-armed into them. They fasten on content and forget about form — forgetting that content and form are the same thing, that what a sentence says is the same as how it says it.