The critic and the visionary

The first Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology was H. G. Wood. The subject of his Inaugural Lecture given in 1940 was The function of a Department of Theology in a modern University. Appropriately enough he took up the views of John Henry, Cardinal Newman, the one Birmingham theologian whose work is...

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Main Author: Young, F. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1988
In: Scottish journal of theology
Year: 1988, Volume: 41, Issue: 3, Pages: 297-312
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