Maurice, F. D.

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Maurice, F. D. ( John Frederick Denison Maurice) (1805–72), joined the Church of England in 1830 and was ordained in 1834. His The Kingdom of Christ (1838) was a plea for Christian unity. In 1840 he became professor of English literature and history at King's College, London. He became a leader of the Christian Socialist movement which brought him into close contact with C. Kingsley. His Theological Essays (1835) presented his unorthodox views on Eternal Punishment and caused his dismissal from King's College. In 1854 he founded a Working Men's College, and was its first principal. In 1866 he became professor of moral philosophy at Cambridge.

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