Geoffrey William Hugo lamp

Geoffrey William Hugo Lampe (born August 13, 1912 - † August 5, 1980 ) was a British theologian .

Lampe graduated from Exeter College , Oxford , with a degree in literae humaniores in 1935 and in theology in 1936 . From 1960 to 1970 he was Ely Professor of Divinity , from 1971 to 1979 Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University . He was also a member of the General Synod of the Church of England . Lampe is particularly known as the editor of the originally theologically oriented Patristic Greek Lexicon . In 1963 he was elected a member ( Fellow ) of the British Academy .

Fonts

• The Seal of the Spirit. A study in the Doctrine of Baptism and Confirmation in the New Testament and the Fathers . Longmans, Green & Co 1951.
• The Resurrection. A Dialogue Between Two Cambridge Professors In A Secular Age . Mowbray 1966.
• A Patristic Greek Lexicon . Oxford: Oxford University Press 1969. ISBN 0-198-64213-X
• The Phenomenon Of Christian Belief . Mowbray 1970.
• The Cambridge History of the Bible: West from the Fathers to the Reformation , Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1975.
• God as Spirit . Oxford: Clarendon Press 1977 (The Bampton Lectures 1976).

literature

• CFD Moule: Geoffrey William Hugo Lampe, 1912–1980 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy . tape 67 , 1982, pp. 399-409 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).

predecessor	Office	successor
Dennis Eric Nineham	Regius Professor of Divinity 1971–1979	Henry Chadwick