Henry Scott Holland
Henry Scott Holland (* January 27, 1847, † March 17, 1918 ) was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. He taught philosophy and religion, and published many papers on these topics. Holland was a canon of Christ Church Cathedral.
Life
Henry Scott Holland was born in Ledbury, a town in Herefordshire, England. He received his education and training at Eton, where he was a student of William Johnson Cory, and at the University of Oxford. Holland acquired the Oxford Doctor of Divinity graduations ( divinitatis Doctor ) Master of Arts ( MA ) and received an honorary doctorate as a Doctor of Letters ( Litterarum doctor ).
After his graduation he was appointed as tutor of Christ Church (Oxford) chosen.
1884 Holland left the University of Oxford and was appointed temporarily as a canon of the Saint Paul's Cathedral.
Holland was especially interested in the field of social justice. He established and formed the group around the concept PESEK (politics, economics, socialism, ethics, Christianity ), who stated in his definition and the circuit finite context that capitalist exploitation - but also the " weakness " of the proletariat - for the contemporary urban poverty were responsible.
1889 Holland founded the Christian Social Union, an organization within the Church of England.
In 1910 he was appointed Regius Professor of Divinity ( one of the oldest and most prestigious professorships at Oxford and Cambridge ). This office kept Holland held until his death in 1918.
On May 15, 1910 Henry Scott Holland has held as a former canon of St Paul's Cathedral in London a sermon on the death of King Edward VII. In the sermon entitled "The King of Terror" examines Holland 's natural, but seemingly contradictory responses to the death, the king of terror ': the fear of the inexplicable and the belief in the continued existence of existence. From the analysis of the latter comes the nowadays well-known quote from him, which is reproduced usually shortened:
I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I, and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, did we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way Which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together did. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word it always did what. Let it be spoken without effort on, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Life Means all that it ever Meant. It is the same as it ever what. There is absolute and unbroken continuity. What is this death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind Because I am out of sight? I am just waiting for you, for at interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner. All is well. "
I'm just disappeared into the next room. I am I and you are you What we had for each other forever, that we still are. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me as you have always done. Do not change your tone. Do not force yourself to patch solemnity or sorrow. Pool still has the little jokes, where we had fun together. Games, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name continue to be so familiar, like he always was. Say it carelessly, without the trace of a shadow. Life means all that it meant until now. It's just like always. It goes on full and uninterrupted. Is not death just a minor incident? Why should I be forgotten just because you no longer see me? I wait for the time being to you, very close, just around the corner. All is well.
Works
- Henry Scott Holland: Death means nothing; Munich, Knaur 2006; ISBN 3-426-66589-1.