Some Thoughts from the Ordinal
Overview
B. F. Westcott compiles the substance of several addresses given to candidates for ordination. He meditates on different parts of the Ordinal, noting that it is his “wish to offer in these short addresses some suggestions for the guidance of our thoughts on the subject which fills our minds now, the confessions and exhortations and promises of the Ordination Service, our promises and the promises of God, which it includes.”
- Title: Some Thoughts from the Ordinal
- Author: Brooke Foss Westcott
- Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
- Print Publication Date: 1884
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Ordination › Anglican Communion
- Resource ID: LLS:SMTHGHTSRDNL
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-13T22:32:13Z
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.