James Bethune-Baker
This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. (March 2020) |
James Franklin Bethune-Baker FBA (23 August 1861 – 13 January 1951) was the Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge from 1911 to 1935.[1]
A Modern Churchman, Bethune-Baker was known for his work on the person and writings of Nestorius. He was co-editor of the Journal of Theological Studies from 1904 to 1935. He was a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge for sixty years. His funeral service took place in Pembroke College Chapel on 17 January 1951, but he was buried in the Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge. He was a cousin of Arthur Christopher Benson, who is also buried in the Ascension Parish Burial Ground.
He was married to Edith Bethune-Baker, née Furneaux Jordan, a welfare campaigner, who was born in 1862. Their son Arthur Bethune-Baker was a contemporary of Charles Hamilton Sorley at Marlborough College, but he died while still at school, aged sixteen.
Selected works
- Influence of Christianity on War, 1888
- The Meaning of Homoousios in the "Constantinopolitan" Creed, 1901.
- An Introduction to the Early History of Christian Doctrine, to the Time of the Council of Chalcedon, 1903 (revised 1933)
- Bethune-Baker, James F. (1908). Nestorius and His Teaching: A Fresh Examination of the Evidence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107432987.
- The Faith of the Apostles' Creed: An Essay in Adjustment Of Belief and Faith, 1918.
References
- ^ "Baker, James Franklin Bethune, 1861-1951 (theological writer)". University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 3 April 2023. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
External links
- Articles with short description
- Short description matches Wikidata
- Use dmy dates from April 2022
- Articles lacking in-text citations from March 2020
- All articles lacking in-text citations
- Articles with Internet Archive links
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with BIBSYS identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with J9U identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with NKC identifiers
- Articles with NTA identifiers
- Articles with VcBA identifiers
- Articles with DTBIO identifiers
- Articles with SNAC-ID identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- 1861 births
- 1951 deaths
- Fellows of the British Academy
- Fellows of Pembroke College, Cambridge
- Lady Margaret's Professors of Divinity
- All stub articles
- British theologian stubs