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Scholarship and fierce sincerity : Henry D.A. Major : the face of Anglican modernism / Clive Pearson, Allan Davidson, Peter Lineham.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Auckland, N.Z. : Polygraphia, 2006.Description: 245 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9781877332197 (pbk.)
  • 1877332194 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 283.092 22
LOC classification:
  • BX5720.5
Contents:
Preface / John Wright -- Introduction / Paul Reeves -- In search of Henry Major ; The modernist pilgrim ; From modernism to 'majorism' ; With a goodly company / Clive Pearson -- Henry D.A. Major : a modernist's pilgrimage. Pt. 1. The backwoods of New Zealand. Pt. 2. St. John's College and the University of Auckland. Pt. 3. Oxford : the whitewashing of a colonial. Pt. 4. Vice-principal of Ripon Clergy College. Pt. 5. Tour in the near east. Pt. 6. Principal problems / Clive Pearson -- A modernist prophet without honour in his own country? / Allan Davidson -- The great bible demonstration / Peter Lineham -- Bibliographies H.D.A. Major. Select.
Summary: "Henry Major arrived in New Zealand with his parents and siblings in 1878. He later completed honours in Geology at Auckland University College (now The University of Auckland), and prepared for ordination in the Anglican ministry at St. John's College, Meadowbank. He returned to England, read Theology at Oxford and dedicated his life to theological education, becoming principal of Ripon Hall. Henry Major was a controversial figure who espoused the modernist cause, which arose from the application of critical scholarship to the biblical text. He took a leading role in the modernist movement. The book focuses on a "theological jotter" discovered in the library at Cuddesdon College, which merged with Ripon Hall in the 1970s. Clive Pearson gives a commentary on this document which records Major's New Zealand roots and Oxford experience. Allan Davidson places Major in the context of twentieth-century New Zealand Anglicanism, while Peter Lineham describes the opposition he faced on his only return visit to this country in 1929. The story contributes to the history of New Zealand religious thought and gives an insight into the effects of biblical scholarship in the English Church."--The University of Auckland.
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Book: Standard Hewitson Library, Presbyterian Research Centre Main BX5720.5.M35 P43 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 19-854

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-238) and index.

Preface / John Wright -- Introduction / Paul Reeves -- In search of Henry Major ; The modernist pilgrim ; From modernism to 'majorism' ; With a goodly company / Clive Pearson -- Henry D.A. Major : a modernist's pilgrimage. Pt. 1. The backwoods of New Zealand. Pt. 2. St. John's College and the University of Auckland. Pt. 3. Oxford : the whitewashing of a colonial. Pt. 4. Vice-principal of Ripon Clergy College. Pt. 5. Tour in the near east. Pt. 6. Principal problems / Clive Pearson -- A modernist prophet without honour in his own country? / Allan Davidson -- The great bible demonstration / Peter Lineham -- Bibliographies H.D.A. Major. Select.

"Henry Major arrived in New Zealand with his parents and siblings in 1878. He later completed honours in Geology at Auckland University College (now The University of Auckland), and prepared for ordination in the Anglican ministry at St. John's College, Meadowbank. He returned to England, read Theology at Oxford and dedicated his life to theological education, becoming principal of Ripon Hall. Henry Major was a controversial figure who espoused the modernist cause, which arose from the application of critical scholarship to the biblical text. He took a leading role in the modernist movement. The book focuses on a "theological jotter" discovered in the library at Cuddesdon College, which merged with Ripon Hall in the 1970s. Clive Pearson gives a commentary on this document which records Major's New Zealand roots and Oxford experience. Allan Davidson places Major in the context of twentieth-century New Zealand Anglicanism, while Peter Lineham describes the opposition he faced on his only return visit to this country in 1929. The story contributes to the history of New Zealand religious thought and gives an insight into the effects of biblical scholarship in the English Church."--The University of Auckland.

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