Thoughts on Revelation & Life: Being Selections from the Writings of Brooke Foss Westcott
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Overview
This volume compiles characteristic selections from the writings of B. F. Westcott—including passages from sermons, essays, and addresses—on a variety of topics in individual Christian life and society—representing how, as Westcott wrote, “Christianity takes account of the whole nature of man, consecrating to its service the natural exercise of every power and the fulfilment of every situation in which he is placed.” Of interest to pastors and divinity students as well as laypeople, this compendium of selections focuses on various aspects of Christian life, and role of the Christian and of the church in the world. Particularly interesting are Westcott’s writings on the relationship of Christianity to art and literature, as editor Stephen Phillips notes, with “their unique teaching on the mission of poet and painter ‘to present the truth of things under the aspect of beauty.’ ”
- Title: Thoughts on Revelation & Life: Being Selections from the Writings of Brooke Foss Westcott
- Author: Brooke Foss Westcott
- Edition: First Edition
- Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
- Print Publication Date: 1887
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 388
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Devotional literature, English; Meditations
- Resource ID: LLS:THGHTSRVLWSTCTT
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-01-31T21:56:07Z
Brooke Foss Westcott (1825–1901) was a British bishop, biblical scholar, and theologian serving as bishop of Durham from 1890 until his death.
Westcott studied at Trinity College in Cambridge where he graduated in 1848. He stayed at Trinity, where in 1849 he obtained his fellowship and was ordained deacon and priest. He received honorary degrees from Oxford in 1881 and Edinburgh 1883. In 1890, he became the bishop of Durham.
He has authored several works, including Introduction to the New Testament in the Original Greek, A General View of the History of the English Bible, Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament, and Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians.