JAMES

See also:

• BOWLING (Lat. bulla, a globe, through O. Fr. boule, ball)

BOWLING

See also:

• JAMES BOWLING MOZLEY (1813—1878)
• MOZLEY, THOMAS (1806-1893)

MOZLEY (1813—1878)  , English theologian, was born at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, on the 15th of September 1813, and was educated at Oriel College, Oxford . He was elected to a fellowship at Magdalen in 184o . He took an active part in the Oxford movement, but could no more follow Newman into the Roman communion " than fly." He was joint editor of the Christian Remembrancer, but withdrew from the position because of his substantial agreement with the famous Gorham decision . He was one of the earliest supporters of the Guardian . In 1856 he became vicar of Shoreham, in 1869 canon of Worcester, and in 1871 regius professor of divinity at Oxford . He died at Shoreham on the 4th of January 1878 . He wrote A Treatise on the Augustinian Doctrine of Predestination (1835); The Primitive Doctrine of Baptismal Regeneration (1856); A Review of the Baptismal Controversy (1862); Subscription to the Articles: a Letter (1863); Lectures on Miracles, being the Bampton Lectures for 1865; and Ruling Ideas in Early Ages and their relation to the Old Testament Faith (1877) . Essays, Historical and Theo-logical, appeared in 1878 (2 vols.), with a biographical preface by his sister Anne, who also edited some of his Letters (1884) .