Owen Chadwick

William Owen Chadwick OM , KBE , FBA , FRSE (born May 20, 1916 in the London Borough of Bromley , † July 17, 2015 in Cambridge ) was a British historian, writer, theologian and university professor.

Life

Owen Chadwick was born the third of six children to lawyer John Chadwick and his wife Edith. Henry Chadwick was his brother. He attended Cuddesdon Theological College Cuddesdon in Oxford and became a priest of the Church of England ordained . After the end of World War II , he was chaplain at Tonbridge and a fellow at Trinity Hall , Cambridge. From 1956 until his retirement in 1983, he was Rector of Selwyn College at Cambridge University . In 1968 he was appointed as the successor to Herbert Butterfield as Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University, he resigned the chair in 1982. He was President of the British Academy in the early 1980s and Vice Chancellor of the University of East Anglia between 1984 and 1994 . In 1977 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was an honorary member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .

Chadwick was the author of numerous books, these deal with the papacy in modern times, Lord Acton , secularization and the Reformation . With his brother Henry he edited the Oxford History of the Christian Church ; He wrote three volumes in the series himself.

With the appointment as Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire the elevation to the personal nobility ("Sir") would be connected. Since Chadwick as a clergyman but no accolade received, he had no right to this dignity and salutation.

Chadwick died at his Cambridge home on July 17, 2015, aged 99.

Fonts (in selection)

• John Cassian . A study in primitive monasticism . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1950.
• From Bossuet to Newman . The idea of ​​doctrinal development . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1957.
• Victorian Miniature . Hodder and Stoughton, London 1960.
• The Reformation . Penguin, Harmondsworth 1964.
• The Victorian Church , 2 volumes (= An ecclesiastical history of England , Vol. 7 and 8). Black, London 1966 and 1970.
• The Secularization of the European Mind in the 19th Century . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1975.
• Catholicism and history. The opening of the Vatican Archives . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1978.
• Newman . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1983 (in the “Past Masters” series).
• The Popes and European Revolution . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1981 ( Oxford History of the Christian Church ).
• The fisherman and his God. Izaak Walton . Christian Evidence Society, London 1984.
• Hensley Henson. A study in the Friction between Church and State . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1983.
• Michael Ramsey . A life . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1990.
• A history of Christianity . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1995.
  • The history of Christianity. DVA, Stuttgart 1996.
• A History of the Popes 1830-1914 . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1998 ( Oxford History of the Christian Church ).
• Acton and history . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1998.
• The Early Reformation on the Continent . Clarendon Press, Oxford 2001 ( Oxford History of the Christian Church ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Owen Chadwick in the catalog of the German National Library
• Heidi Poon: William Owen Chadwick. ( Memento from July 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: GiffordLectures .org (English)
• Alan Macfarlane : Interviewed by Owen Chadwick. In: AlanMacfarlane.com , February 29, 2008 (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ John Morrill: The Rev Owen Chadwick. Obituary . In: The Guardian, July 20, 2015.
2. ^ William Grimes: Owen Chadwick, British Scholar of Christianity, Dies at 99. In: The New York Times , July 23, 2015 (English). Retrieved July 24, 2015.