Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury
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Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury by The Revd Canon Peter Hinchliff
A biography of Frederick Temple who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1897 to 1902 and was involved in many crucial events in ecclesiastical politics in the late-19th century.The author has used largely unpublished family papers as well as volumes of official papers in the preparation of this book.
Hinchcliff provides interesting commentaries on the prevailing issues in the Victorian Church* Richard J. Janet, The Catholic Hist. Review. *
there is much biographical information, which is detailed enough to be interesting but not to swamp the reader with minutiae ... the story is so well told that any uneven joins hardly grate ...Hinchliff's great success is to show ... different sides of Temple's character and to illuminate his life's work so compellingly. * James Garrard, Third Millennium - Affirming Catholicism *
With the skills of the professional historian, he both supplemented and corrected the impressions given by the memoirs in the light of other sources of information, and especially of unpublished letters and papers, many of which were made available to him by Temple's family ... Hinchcliff has served us well with a biography that not only fully charts his activities ... but also assesses his achievements in a very careful and balanced manner. * Paul Bradshaw, Heythrop Journal *
Peter Hinchliff's perceptive Life is both a tribute to Temple and a fine example of Hichliff's own significant contribution to the study of church history. * Church Times *
The book displays the late Professor Hinchliff's greatest gifts. * TLS *
Peter Hinchliff's life of Temple is the first full biography as well as perforce the best, even though it comes nearly a century late. It is likely to remain the best biography for some time, because it is sound and thorough enough to deter a revision... The most important biographical discovery is that Temple's personal faith, shaped by the dominant influence of his mother, was of the pre-Tractarian High Church variety, a style of Anglican devotion that has only recently been rediscovered. * Josef L. Altholz, Church History, Vol. 68, No.2 *
This biography will stand as a fitting memorial to his scholarship. * Contemporary Review *
This is a fine life, full of valuable detail and keen comment, and enlivened by deft quotation, not least of Temple's later ripostes, some of which Hinchcliff describes as reading like captions to cartoons in Punch. * The Expository Times *
a detailed, psycologically nuanced account of Temple's rise ... Hincliff handles controversy with particular clarity and engaging suspense ... For those interested in the history of modernity, in the powers of change as they bear down upon religious insitutions and their leaders, this is a valuably illustrative work. As to judging the efforts of those who 'have gone before us,' it should also provoke some healthy humility among the hindsighted. * Alan P.R. Gregory, Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, Austin, Texas, Anglican Theological Review, Vol 81, no 3 *
there is much biographical information, which is detailed enough to be interesting but not to swamp the reader with minutiae ... the story is so well told that any uneven joins hardly grate ...Hinchliff's great success is to show ... different sides of Temple's character and to illuminate his life's work so compellingly. * James Garrard, Third Millennium - Affirming Catholicism *
With the skills of the professional historian, he both supplemented and corrected the impressions given by the memoirs in the light of other sources of information, and especially of unpublished letters and papers, many of which were made available to him by Temple's family ... Hinchcliff has served us well with a biography that not only fully charts his activities ... but also assesses his achievements in a very careful and balanced manner. * Paul Bradshaw, Heythrop Journal *
Peter Hinchliff's perceptive Life is both a tribute to Temple and a fine example of Hichliff's own significant contribution to the study of church history. * Church Times *
The book displays the late Professor Hinchliff's greatest gifts. * TLS *
Peter Hinchliff's life of Temple is the first full biography as well as perforce the best, even though it comes nearly a century late. It is likely to remain the best biography for some time, because it is sound and thorough enough to deter a revision... The most important biographical discovery is that Temple's personal faith, shaped by the dominant influence of his mother, was of the pre-Tractarian High Church variety, a style of Anglican devotion that has only recently been rediscovered. * Josef L. Altholz, Church History, Vol. 68, No.2 *
This biography will stand as a fitting memorial to his scholarship. * Contemporary Review *
This is a fine life, full of valuable detail and keen comment, and enlivened by deft quotation, not least of Temple's later ripostes, some of which Hinchcliff describes as reading like captions to cartoons in Punch. * The Expository Times *
a detailed, psycologically nuanced account of Temple's rise ... Hincliff handles controversy with particular clarity and engaging suspense ... For those interested in the history of modernity, in the powers of change as they bear down upon religious insitutions and their leaders, this is a valuably illustrative work. As to judging the efforts of those who 'have gone before us,' it should also provoke some healthy humility among the hindsighted. * Alan P.R. Gregory, Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, Austin, Texas, Anglican Theological Review, Vol 81, no 3 *
The author died on 17 October 1995, having just submitted his final typescript.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198263869 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198263864 |
| Title | Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Author | The Revd Canon Peter Hinchliff |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1998-01-29 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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