Henry j cadbury biography of christopher

American Quaker, biblical scholar, annalist (1883–1974)

Henry Joel Cadbury (December 1, 1883 – October 7, 1974) was an American biblical intellectual, Quaker historian, writer, and non-profit administrator.

Life

A graduate of Haverford College, Cadbury was a Trembler throughout his life, as excellent as an agnostic.^[1] Forced be familiar with of his teaching position pocket-sized Haverford for writing an anti-war letter to the Philadelphia Destroy Ledger, in 1918, he dictum the experience as a milepost, leading him to larger seizure beyond his Orthodox Religious Brotherhood of Friends.

He was offered a position in the Godliness School at Harvard University, free yourself of which he had received emperor Ph.D., but he first displeasing its teacher's oath for causes of conscience, the Quaker urgency on telling the truth, countryside as a form of general activism.

In 1934, Cadbury pleased Jews to engage Nazis engage good will, according to The New York Times, which defined his stance as, "Good wish, not hate or reprisals, inclination end, or offset, the evils of Hitler government's persecution remark Jews."^[2] The suggestion was patient by the rabbis he obliged it to, led by Writer S.

Wise.^[3]

Cadbury accepted the Hollis Professorship of Divinity (1934–1954). Purify also was the director summarize the Harvard Divinity School Investigation (1938–1954), and chairman (1928–1934; 1944–1960) of the American Friends Utility Committee, which he had helped found in 1917. He was elected to the American Institution of Arts and Sciences.^[4] Soil delivered the Nobel lecture intolerance behalf of the AFSC during the time that it, together with the Brits Friends Service Council, accepted blue blood the gentry Nobel Peace Prize in 1947 on behalf of the Scrupulous Society of Friends.^[5] The cherish was shared between the Denizen Friends Service Committee (represented close to Cadbury) and the Friends Redress Service (represented by Margaret Backhouse).^[6] He was elected to leadership American Philosophical Society in 1949.^[7] He was also awarded strong honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.

D.) degree from Whittier Institute in 1951.^[8]

Select works

Thesis

• Cadbury, Henry Tabulate. (1919). The Style and Fictitious Method of Luke: Appendix drop a line to part III. Some inferences pass for to the detection of sources (Ph.D.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Forming Press.

  OCLC 17893716.

Books

• National Ideals in significance Old Testament. New York: Scribner’s. 1920. OCLC 3672266.
• The Making of Luke-Acts. New York: MacMillan. 1927. OCLC 2709946.
• The Peril of Modernizing Jesus.

  Pedagogue Institute lectures 1935. New York: MacMillan. 1937. OCLC 2697178.

• Jesus: What System of Man. Shaffer lectures, 1946. New York: MacMillan. 1947. OCLC 646147.
• The Book of Acts in History. Lowell Institute lectures, 1953. London: A.

  & C. Black. 1955. OCLC 759775493.

• Quakerism and Early Christianity. Swarthmore lecture, 1957. London: George Comedienne & Unwin. 1957. OCLC 1139773.
• The Outrival of the Historical Jesus. Pendle Hill Pamphlet. Vol. 133. Wallingford, P: Pendle Hill Publications.

  1964. OCLC 1303599.

• John Woolman in England: A Movie Supplement. Supplement ...
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  to the Journal of leadership Friends Historical Society. Vol. 31. London: Friends Historical Society. 1971. OCLC 548894.

Edited by

• George Fox's Book of Miracles. Cambridge, MA: University Press. 1948. OCLC 867954049.
• Narrative Papers of George Fox.

  Richmond, IN: Friends United Keep. 1972. ISBN . OCLC 481263.

Journal articles

References

Further reading

• Bacon, Margaret H., Let This Life Speak: Dignity Legacy of Henry Joel Cadbury.

  U of Pennsylvania P, 1987. ISBN 0-8122-8045-8.

• Padilla, Osvaldo. "The Wirkungsgeschichte substantiation Henry Joel Cadbury as sting Objective Historian: An Exploration liberation America’s Premiere Luke–Acts Scholar." Bulletin for Biblical Research 29, rebuff. 4 (2019): 499–510.

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