THOMAS

See also:

• KELLY, EDWARD (1854–188o)
• KELLY, HUGH (1739–1777)
• KELLY, MICHAEL (1762–1826)
• KELLY, SIR FITZROY (1796–1880)

KELLY

See also:

• THOMAS KELLY CHEYNE (1841— )

CHEYNE (1841— )  , English divine and Biblical critic, was born in London, and educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Oxford . Subsequently he studied German theological methods at Gottingen . He was ordained in 1864, and held a fellowship at Balliol College, Oxford, 1868-1882 . During the earlier part of this period he stood alone in the university as a teacher of the main conclusions of modern Old Testament criticism . In 1881 he was presented to the rectory of Tendring, in Essex, and in 1884 he was made a member of the Old Testament revision company . He resigned the living of Tendring in 1885 on his appointment to the Oriel professorship, which carried with it a canonry at Rochester . In 1889 he delivered the Bampton lectures at Oxford . In 1908 he resigned his professor-ship . He consistently urged in his writings the necessity of a broad and comprehensive study of the Scriptures in the light of literary, historical and scientific considerations . His publications include commentaries on the Prophets and Hagiographa, and lectures and addresses on theological subjects . He was a joint editor of the Encyclopaedia Biblica (London, 1899-1903), a work embodying the more advanced conclusions of English biblical criticism . In the introduction to his Origin of the Psalter (London, '891) he gave an account of his development as a critical scholar .