Arthur Stanley (priest)

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, Judaism and Islam.

Life

Stanley was the son of Edward Stanley Bishop 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 worked as a Fellow at University College, and in 1851 elected a canon of Canterbury, and in 1858 professor of church history at Oxford. He was also chaplain to the Bishop of London and Dean of Westminster since 1863. As a representative of a mild enlightenment within Christianity, he participated in 1872 at the Old Catholic Congress vividness in Cologne. He was raised in 1875 to the Lord Rector of the University of St. Andrews.

Literary activity

He began his biography of his youth teacher Thomas Arnold (EA 1844) His literary activity.

This was followed by:

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

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

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

Often indignation aroused Stanley in 1880 by the stubborn hold on to his plan, the son of Napoleon III. to have a monument in Westminster Abbey place until it finally forced the will of Parliament to yield.

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 published in 1859 )
  • The History of the Jewish Church Volume I, II and III. Charles Scribner's Sons, New, in 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 edition 1882)
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