The Right to Resist an Abuse of Power by Michael Davies The Redemptorist Christian Encounter is one of the most widely read Sunday bulletins circulating in Britain. Its issue of 11 May 1975 contained a short account of the life of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, who was born in 1175, or thereabouts, and died in 1253. The fact that 1975 may mark the eighth centenary of his birth could account for the article. It is a matter for regret that the few brief details given in the bulletin will be all that most of its readers will ever learn...