Welcome to The Vale of Tears
Support for A Level New Testament Studies
and Ethics Students
dedicated to The King's School RS Posse 1999-2001
'Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here!'
Hello dears!
This site has been created
as a support for those A Level Students struggling with the joys of A Level RS,
particularly New Testament Studies and Ethics! It was originally a gift to my
ex-students at The King's School Peterborough, but should A Level students from
other schools happen upon this page and wonder... ... you are welcome. You are
studying the most interesting story in the world.
At present, I am working on
section to support the Ethics Module of the OCR Religious Studies A Level.
The site includes sections
on John's Gospel, together with New Testament theology through a study of the
Synoptic Gospels and tips on essay writing and coursework.
If you have particular
questions on either John's Gospel or the Synoptics which are not at present
addressed directly on the site, please use the 'Problem Page' which you will
find at the bottom. I will try to assist you.
The Webmistress
The Recording Angel says
that you are visitor number to
The Vale of Tears!
"All over the long
island we rambled; on two consecutive days we stopped on the road to Leverburgh
at a point above the vast sands which stretched across the bay towards the
distant range of blue mountains, and twice we visited the remote church at
Rodel on the southernmost tip of Harris. Then I, who was so very bad at worship
and so very reluctant to be 'churchy', found myself thinking of Jesus Christ,
living thousands of miles away in another culture in another millennium,
writing nothing, completing his life's work in three years, a failure by
worldly standards, dying an ignoble death - yet still alive in the little
church at Rodel upon the remotest edge of Europe, still alive for his millions
upon millions of followers worldwide, not a despised, rejected failure any more
but acknowledged even by non-Christians as one of the greatest men who had ever
lived, etched deep on the consciousness of humanity and expressing his
mysterious message of regeneration in that most enigmatic of all symbols, the
cross."
Venetia Flaxton in
'Scandalous Risks' by Susan Howatch
