Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

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Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, around 1855

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (born December 13, 1815 in Alderley Edge , Cheshire , † July 18, 1881 in London ) was a British church historian , writer and theologian . Stanley was Dean ( Dean ) of Westminster from 1863 to 1881. His main focus was the Eastern Churches , the Judaism and Islam .

Life

Stanley was the son of Bishop Edward Stanley of Norwich and cousin of Lord Stanley of Alderley. He studied theology at Oxford , where he won an award for his poem The gipsies . From 1840 he was a Fellow at University College and was elected Canon of Canterbury in 1851 and Professor of Church History at Oxford in 1858 . He was also chaplain to the Bishop of London and from 1863 dean of Westminster. As a representative of a mild enlightenment within Christianity, he took part in the Old Catholic Congress in Cologne in 1872 . He was promoted to Lord Rector of St. Andrews University in 1875 . In 1876 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Literary activity

He began his literary work with the biography of his youth teacher Thomas Arnold (EA 1844).

It followed:

  • Sermons and essays on the apostolical age (1846, 3rd ed. 1874);
  • Historical memorials of Canterbury (1854, 10th ed. 1883);
  • Sinai and Palestine , the fruit of a journey to the Orient (1856, 4th ed. 1883);
  • Lectures on the history of the Eastern Church (1861, 5th ed. 1883) and others.

After a second trip to the Orient in 1862 as the companion of the Prince of Wales, he published:

  • Scenes of the East (1863);
  • Lectures on history of the Jewish Church (1862; 8th ed. 1884, 3 vols.);
  • Historical memorials of Westminster Abbey (5th ed. 1882);
  • Essays chiefly on questions of church and state from 1850-70 (1870, new ed. 1884);
  • The Athanasian creed (1871); Lectures on the history of the Church of Scotland (1872);
  • Christian institutions (4th ed. 1883) et al

Stanley aroused many indignation in 1880 by stubbornly sticking to his plan, the son of Napoleon III. to have a monument erected in Westminster Abbey until the will of Parliament finally compelled him to give in.

Works

  • Sinai and Palestine. London 1864
  • Lectures on the History of the Eastern Church. London Murray, 4th edition 1869 (The first edition of the standard work appeared in 1859)
  • The History of the Jewish Church Volume I, II and III. Charles Scribner's Sons , New, 1879.
  • The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, DD, Late Head-Master of Rugby School, and Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford. London: B. Fellows, 1846. Sixth edition
  • Historical memorials of Westminster Abbey (5th ed. 1882)

literature

  • Grace Oliver: Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (3rd ed., Lond. 1885).

Name variants

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Arthur P. Stanley, AP Stanley

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SURNAME Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British church historian, writer and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Alderley Edge , Cheshire
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1881
Place of death London