How can you make sense of Shakespeare and Sir Walter15ScoR, or of the cons5tu5onal conflicts of the 17th century in both Scotland and England,without some such fundamental knowledge?
This underscores how essential christian tradition is to grasping the meaning of british literature and the great moments in its history
In Scotland, as in England, there is an historic connec5on expressed in our laws betweenChurch and State
The christian tradition has left its mark everywhere in british literature and its official stories, an almost imperceptible but persistent way.
God whom our fathers in days of stress and trial confidently trusted,
Our fathers who believed in God, even their ancestors trusted God, which makes it a tradition that continues and originates from morality and religion, and this is what characterizes the foundations of unionist Protestantism in Ulster where precisely the Christian faith is intimately linked to the defense of British identity and civil liberties. To summarize, this sentence gives them a feeling of carrying a legacy and defending a cause much bigger than themselves.