Alfred Ernest Garvie

Alfred Ernest Garvie (born August 29, 1861 in Żyrardów , Kingdom of Poland , † March 7, 1945 ) was a British congregational theologian.

Garvie, whose parents Peter Garvie and Jane Kedslie were from Scotland, was sent to Edinburgh for schooling in 1874 . After graduating from George Watson's College , he trained as a cloth merchant in Glasgow . He was also involved in the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland . Because he could not choose a pastorate in the Presbyterian Church, he first studied Latin, Greek and philosophy at the University of Glasgow from 1885 . After graduating in 1889, he moved to the Congregational Union of Scotland and studied theology at Mansfield College (Oxford) . From 1893 to 1895 he cared for a parish in Macduff (Aberdeenshire) , then in Montrose (Angus) . In 1903 he became professor of systematic theology at Hackney College and New College , which belonged to the Theological Faculty of the University of London . In 1907 he took over the post of rector in the (old) New College , in 1924 in the new New College, London , which was created by the merger of the two colleges . He held this office until he retired in 1933.

In addition, Garvie has held numerous honorary positions in church organizations in Great Britain and the global ecumenical movement. In 1902 he was President of the Congregational Union of Scotland for one year, and in 1920 Chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales . In 1923 he served as President of the National Free Church Council , in 1928 as moderator of the Federal Council of the Free Churches . He also held influential offices in the early ecumenical movement . At the Stockholm World Conference of Churches in 1925 he gave an introductory speech and was elected to the Executive Committee of the Movement for Practical Christianity . In the Faith and Order Movement , he was vice-chairman of the continuation committee and served as vice-president of the 1927 and 1937 world conferences.

Garvie was also a prolific theological writer who made the theology of Albrecht Ritschl and his school known in Great Britain through his book The Ritschlian Theology (1899) . His books A Guide to Preachers (1906) and The Evangelical Type of Christianity (1916) as well as the three-volume draft of a dogmatics The Christian Doctrine of the Godhead (1925) had a great influence .

literature

Robert Pope (Ed.): T&T Clark Companion to Nonconformity. A&C Black, London 2013

Web links

Wikisource
Giles C. Watson: Garvie, Alfred Ernest. In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004 (not viewed).
Short biography on jasongoroncy.com

Individual evidence

↑ Wolfram Weisse: Practical Christianity and Kingdom of God. The ecumenical movement Life and Work 1919–1937 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1991, esp. Pp. 290-292 et al.

personal data
SURNAME	Garvie, Alfred Ernest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British Congregational theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	August 29, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH	Żyrardów , Kingdom of Poland
DATE OF DEATH	March 7, 1945

[1] Wolfram Weisse: Practical Christianity and Kingdom of God. The ecumenical movement Life and Work 1919–1937 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1991, esp. Pp. 290-292 et al.