On Some Points in the Religious Office of the Universities
Overview
This volume collects short meditations from B. F. Westcott on the relationship between the university and religious life in missions, clergy training, and related areas, and the real state of affairs at Cambridge. Written upon his return to teaching at their after an absence of nearly 20 years, B. F. Westcott has a unique perspective from which to “estimate the real character of the changes which have taken place during that eventful period.”
- Title: On Some Points in the Religious Office of the Universities
- Author: Brooke Foss Westcott
- Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
- Print Publication Date: 1873
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Moral education; Religious education; Universities and colleges
- Resource ID: LLS:SMPNTSFFCNVRSTS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-14T02:20:42Z
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.