Brooke Westcott

Brooke Foss Westcott ( born January 12, 1825 Birmingham, † July 27, 1901 in Auckland Castle, County Durham ) was an English theologian and Anglican Bishop of Durham from 1890.

He received his education from 1837 to 1844 at the King Edward VI School in Birmingham under the Rector James Prince Lee ( 1804-1869 ), later Bishop of Manchester. Lee ordained him later and he was his role model. In 1844 he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1849 he became an elected member and remained there until 1869. 1851 he was ordained a deacon in the same year on December 21 as a priest. Westcott taught from 1852 to 1869 at the Harrow Scool under the then rector of Charles John Vaughan ( 1816-1897 ), he also was a friend of Edward White Benson. A very close friend was Fenton John Anthony Hort. He married 1852.

As a New Testament scholar and philologist, he reached around 1860 along with Joseph Barber Lightfoot ( 1828-1889 ) and Hort methods of evangelical Tübingen school and developed a historical-critical method of biblical research. The three men Hort, Westcott and Lightfoot were referred to as " Cambridge triumvirate ". On November 1, 1870, he was elected as Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He held until 1890, when he was in succession to Bishop Lightfoot of Durham this chair. He was highly active version despite his duties as a professor and the employees at the Commission on Revised as pastors and preachers. He had no full pastorate, but was active in the period 1869-1890 as a canon of Peterborough and Westminster, London. In addition, he was Examining Chaplain in Peterborough, London and Canterbury.

He took a position on the religious and political issues of his time and to the social question. He is considered one of the founders of Durham, founded in 1889 Christian Social Union and mediated in 1892 in a strike of 10,000 miners, which caused immense costs. Lord Salisbury prevented because of this " socialist tendencies " his election as Archbishop of York. Westcott was engaged in the " Society for the Propagation of the Gospel ", a Missionary Society, who worked in India. Four of his sons were there missionaries, two of whom were appointed bishops, son Arthur Westcott wrote his biography. Westcott was a member of the Cambridge Apostles.

Edition of the Bible The New Testament in the Original Greek

In 1853 he agreed with Fenton John Anthony Hort that she revisioniereren Lachmann's work and wanted to prepare a new edition of the Greek New Testament. In 1881 he was, together with Hort out his text output The New Testament in the Original Greek, the receptus einleutete the end of the Textus in modern text editions.

Works

Partial list of major works

  • Elements of the Gospel Harmony ( 1851)
  • History of the First Four Centuries of Canon (1853 )
  • A General Survey of the History of the Canon of the New Testament (1855, 1889)
  • Characteristics of Gospel Miracles (1859, 8th edition 1894)
  • Introduction to the Study of the Gospels (1860, 1866)
  • The Bible in the Church (1864 )
  • The Gospel of the Resurrection (1866, revised 1879)
  • A General View of the History of the English Bible (1868; revised by WA Wright 1905)
  • Christian Life Manifold and One (1869 )
  • Some Points in the Religious Life of the Universities (1873 )
  • On the religious office of the universities (1873 )
  • Paragraph Psalter for the Use of Choirs (1879 )
  • Commentary on the Gospel of St John (1881 )
  • Commentary on the Epistles of St John (1883 )
  • The Revelation of the Risen Lord (1882 )
  • The Revelation of the Father: short lectures on the titles of the Lord in the Gospel of St John (1884 )
  • Some Thoughts from the Ordinal (1884 )
  • The Historic Faith: short lectures on the Apostles ' Creed (1885 )
  • Consummator Christ (1886 )
  • Social Aspects of Christianity (1887 )
  • The Victory of the Cross: Sermons in Holy Week (1888 )
  • Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews (1889 )
  • From Strength to Strength (1890)
  • Essays in the History of Religious Thought in the West ( 1891)
  • The Gospel of Life: thoughts introductory to the study of Christian doctrine (1892 )
  • The Incarnation and Common Life (1893 )
  • The Gospel According to St. John (1896 )
  • Some Lessons of the Revised Version of the New Testament ( 1897)
  • Christian Aspects of Life ( 1897)
  • Lessons from Work ( 1901)
  • Saint Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians: the Greek text (1906 )
  • The Two Empires: the Church and the World ( 1909)

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