See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM See also:THOMSON (1819-189o)
, See also:English divine, See also:archbishop of See also:York, was See also:born on the 11th of See also:February 1819 at See also:Whitehaven, See also:Cumberland
.
He was educated at See also:Shrewsbury and at See also:Queen's See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, of which he became a See also:scholar
.
He took his B.A. degree in 184o, and was soon afterwards made See also:fellow of his college
.
He was ordained in 1842, and worked as a See also:curate at Cuddesdon
.
In 1847 he was made See also:tutor of his college, and in 1853 he delivered the See also:Bampton lectures, his subject being " The Atoning See also:Work of See also:Christ viewed in Relation to some See also:Ancient Theories." These thoughtful and learned lectures established his reputation and did much to clear the ground for subsequent discussions on the subject
.
See also:Thomson's activity was not confined to See also:theology
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He was made fellow of the Royal and the Royal See also:Geographical See also:Societies
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He also wrote a very popular Outline of the See also:Laws of Thought
.
He sided with the party at Oxford which favoured university reform, but this did not prevent him from being appointed See also:provost of his college in 1855• In 1858 he was made preacher at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn and there preached some striking sermons, a See also:volume of which he published in 1861
.
In the same See also:year he edited See also:Aids to Faith, a volume written in opposition to Essays and Reviews, the progressive sentiments of which had stirred up a See also:great See also:storm in the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church of See also:England
.
In See also:December 1861 he was rewarded with the see of See also:Gloucester and See also:Bristol, and within a twelvemonth he was elevated to the archiepiscopal see of York
.
In this position his moderate orthodoxy led him to join Archbishop See also:Tait in supporting the Public See also:Worship Regulation See also:Act, and, as See also:president of the See also:northern See also:convocation, he came frequently into See also:sharp collision with the See also:lower See also:house of that See also:body
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But if he thus incuned the hostility of the High Church party among the See also:clergy, he was admired by the laity for his strong sense, his clear and forcible reasoning, and his wide knowledge, and he remained to the last a See also:power in the See also:north of England
.
In his later years he published an address read before the members of the See also:Edinburgh Philosophical Institution (1868), one on See also:Design in Nature, for the See also:Christian See also:Evidence Society, which reached a fifth edition, various charges and See also:pastoral addresses, and he was one of the projectors of The See also:Speaker's Commentary, for which he wrote the " Introduction to the Synoptic Gospels." He died on the 25th of December 1890
.
See the Quarterly See also:Review (See also:April 1892)
.
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