H. G. Wood
Herbert George Wood (2 September 1879 – 9 March 1963) was a British theologian and academic. He was a lecturer in the New Testament from 1910 to 1940 at Woodbrooke College. At the University of Birmingham, he was the first Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology, holding the chair from 1940 to 1946, and was also Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1943 to 1946.[1][2]
He gave the 1933 Hulsean Lectures at the University of Cambridge. He was the first layman and the first Quaker to do so.[2] He was President of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas in 1957.[1]
Selected works
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- Living issues in religious thought: from George Fox to Bertrand Russel (1924)
- The truth and error of communism (1933)
- Communism, Christian and Marxist (1935)
- Christianity and the nature of history (1937)
- Christianity and civilization (1942)
- Frederick Denison Maurice (1950)
- Belief and unbelief since 1850 (1954)
- Freedom and necessity in history (1957)
- Jesus in the Twentieth Century (1960)
References
- 1 2 "Dr. H. G. Wood". The Times (55646). 11 March 1963. p. 12.
- 1 2 Kennedy, Thomas C. (2004). "Wood, Herbert George (1879–1963)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
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