Matthews , Walter Robert , 1881-1973 , Anglican Clergyman

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Matthews , Walter Robert , 1881-1973 , Anglican Clergyman

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        Born 1881; educated Wilson's Grammar School, Camberwell and King's College London; Curate at St Mary Abbots, Kensington, and St Peter, Regents Square; Assistant Chaplain, Magdalen Hospital; Lecturer in Philosophy, 1908-1918, and in Dogmatic Theory, 1909-1918, King's College London; Vicar of Christ Church, Crouch End, 1916-1918; Dean of King's College, London, 1918-1932; Professor of the Philosophy of Religion, King's College London, 1918-1931; Chaplain to Gray's Inn, London, 1920; Member of Senate, University of London, 1921; examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Oxford; Boyle Lecturer, 1920-1922; Chaplain to King George V, 1923-1931; White Lecturer, 1927; Noble Lecturer, 1928; Wilde Lecturer, 1929; Preacher to Gray's Inn, 1929; Dean of Exeter, 1931-1934; Dean of St Paul's, London, 1934; Canon Theologian of Liverpool Cathedral, 1932; KCVO, 1935; Warburton Lecturer, 1938; Fellow of King's College, London, 1918; Fellow of the Royal Society, London, 1948; Fellow, Westfield College, University of London, 1948; died 1973.

        Publications: Anglo-Catholicism of today (Philip Allan, London, 1934); Three sermons on human nature and a dissertation upon the nature of virtue...with introduction, analyses and notes by W R Matthews (London, 1914); The Lord's Prayer. An exposition for today (Hodder and Stoughton, London, [1958]); Biblical principles and social progress (B & F B S, London, [1945]); Christ (Blackie and Son, London and Glasgow, 1939); Christian meditations (Daily Telegraph, London, 1974); Claude Montefiore, the man and his thought (University of Southampton, Southampton, 1956); Does God speak?; Dogma in history and thought: studies by various writers (Nisbet and Co, London, 1929); Essays in construction (Nisbet and Co, London, 1933); Following Christ (Longmans, London, 1940); God and evolution (London, 1926); God in Christian thought and experience (Nisbet and Co, London, 1930); Is God a person? (Hodder and Stoughton, London, [1924]); King's College Lectures on immortality (University of London Press, London, 1920); Memories and meanings (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1969); Our faith in God (Student Christian Movement Press, London, 1936); Our war for freedom. An address to Christians. A broadcast on the Day of National Prayer, October 8, 1939 (Nisbet, London, 1939); Problems of Christian belief; Psychical research and theology (Society for Psychical Research, London, 1940); Reason in religion...the Essex Hall Lecture (Lindsey Press, London, [1950]); Saint Paul's Cathedral in wartime, 1939-1945 (Hutchison and Co, London, 1946); Seven Words (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1933); Signposts to God [broadcast addresses] (Student Christian Movement Press, London, 1938); Some Christian words (George Allen and Unwin, London, 1956); Some modern problems of faith (Cassell and Co, London, 1928); Strangers and pilgrims. Some sermons preached during the war (Nisbet and Co, London, 1945); The hope of immortality (Student Christian Movement Press, London, 1936); The idea of revelation (London, 1923); The moral issues of the war (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1940); The problem of Christ in the twentieth century. An essay on the Incarnation (Oxford University Press, London, 1950); The psychological approach to religion (Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1925); The purpose of God (Nisbet and Co, London, 1935); The religious philosophy of Dean Mansel (Oxford University Press); The search for perfection (S.P.C.K, London, 1957); The thirty-nine articles (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1961); The year through Christian eyes (Epworth press, London, 1970); Week by week. A year's reflections (Faith Press, London, 1952); What is man? Five broadcast addresses (Clarke and Co, London, 1940); What is man? The religious vocation of science (Nisbet and Co, London, [1932]); A history of St Paul's Cathedral and the men associated with it (Phoenix House, London, 1957); Problems of worship (University Press, Cambridge, 1943-); William Temple: an estimate and an appreciation (James Clarke and Co, London, 1946); Recovery starts within. The book of the mission to London (Oxford University Press, London, 1949); Studies in Christian Philosophy: being the Boyle lectures (Macmillan and Co, London, 1921); The adventures of Gabriel in his search for Mr Shaw (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1933); The British philosopher as writer (Oxford University Press, London, 1955); editor of The Christian faith: essays in explanation and defence (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1936); The foundations of peace (Eyre and Spotiswoode, London, 1942); The Gospel and the modern mind (Macmillan and Co, London, [1925]).

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