Arthur Headlam

Memorial plaque in Gloucester Cathedral

Arthur Cayley Headlam (born August 2, 1862 in Whorlton , County Durham , † January 17, 1947 ) was an English clergyman of the Church of England and from 1923 to 1945 Bishop of Gloucester .

Life

Origin and early years

Headlam was the son of the Vicar of Whorlton, Arthur William Headlam (1826-1908) and his first wife Agnes Favell. The historian James Wycliffe Headlam was his younger brother. Arthur Headlam attended Winchester College and then studied at New College and from 1885 at All Souls College , Oxford . In 1888 he became a priest of the Church of England ordained and in 1896 pastor in Welwyn , Hertfordshire . In 1900 he married Evelyn Persis Wingfield.

academic career

From 1903 to 1916 Arthur Headlam was Professor of Dogmatics at King's College London , where he also served as principal from 1903 to 1912 and as first dean from 1908 to 1912 . From 1918 to 1923 he was Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford. His Bampton Lectures of 1920 reflect Headlam's preoccupation with ecumenical theology .

Act as a bishop

During the general strike of 1926 Arthur Headlam spoke out against the intervention of some other Anglican bishops.

Arthur Headlam became particularly influential on the Church of England Council on External Relations when he chaired the Committee on Relations with the Episcopal Churches in the 1930s . He supported the German Christians and was critical of the Confessing Church , so he was considered an appeaser .

Awards

• Order of the Companions of Honor (CH), 1921

Publications (selection)

• With William Sanday : A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans. T&T Clark, Edinburgh 1895. 5th edition 1902.
• The teaching of the Russian church: being notes on points on which it differs from the English church . The Eastern Church Association, London 1897.
• Christian Authority . In: David George Hogarth (Ed.): Authority and Archeology, Sacred and Profane. Essays on the relation of monuments to Biblical and Classical Literature . John Murray, London 1899.
• The sources & authority of dogmatic theology: being an inaugural lecture . MacMillan & Co., London 1903.
• The dates of the New Testament Books . In: Criticism of the New Testament. St. Margaret's Lectures . Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1902.WithWilliam Sanday, Frederick Kenyon, F. Crawford Burkitt, JH Bernhard.
• History, Authority and Theology . John Murray, London 1909.
• St. Paul and Christianity . John Murray, London 1913.
• The Miracles of the New Testament: being the Moorhouse Lectures for 1914 delivered at St. Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne . John Murray, London 1914.
• The study of Theology, an inaugural lecture delivered on June 13, 1918 . The Clarendon Press, Oxford 1918.
• The Doctrine of the Church and Christian reunion: being the Bampton Lectures for the year 1920 . John Murray, London 1920.
• The Anglicans, the Orthodox, and the Old Catholics. Notes on the Lambeth report on Unity . Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London 1921.
• The life and teaching of Jesus the Christ . Oxford University Press, New York 1923.
• Christian Unity . Christian Student Movement Press, London 1930.
• What it means to be a Christian . Faber & Faber, London 1933.
• Christian Theology; the Doctrine of God . Oxford Clarendon Press, 1934.
• The Church of Roumania and the Anglican Communion 1937.
• The Fourth Gospel as History . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1946.

literature

• Headlam, Arthur Cayley. In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of September 25, 2014, accessed February 13, 2019.
• Ronald Jasper: Arthur Cayley Headlam: Life and Letters of a Bishop . Faith Press, London 1960.
• EC Prichard: Arthur Cayley Headlam: Bishop of Gloucester, 1923–45. A life . Churchman, Worthing 1990, ISBN 9781850931812 .

Web links

• Bibliographs in Project Canterbury

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Headlam, Arthur Cayley. In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of September 25, 2014, accessed February 13, 2019.
2. ^ Dean's Office Records . In: King's College London . 2015. Retrieved February 10, 2015.
3. ^ Frederick Burgess: The Lambeth Appeal . In: The Catholic Faith and the Religious Situation . The Churchmen's Alliance, New York 1921 (Retrieved February 10, 2015).
4. ^ Matthew Grimley: Citizenship, Community, and the Church of England. Liberal Anglican Theories of the State Between the Wars . Oxford University Press, UK 2004, ISBN 9780199270897 , p. 121.
5. ↑ Edward Carpenter : Cantuar. The Archbishops in their Office , 3rd edition, Mowbray, London 1997, p. 450.
6. ^ Keith Clements: Faith on the Frontier. A Life of JH Oldham . T & T Clark, Edinburgh 1999, p. 343.

predecessor	Office	successor
Edgar Gibson	Bishop of Gloucester 1924–1954	Wilfred Askwith