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Maurice, Frederick Denison
Maurice, Frederick Denison (1805–72), Christian Socialist. The son of a Unitarian minister, he gradually accepted the Anglican faith and was ordained in 1834. In 1846 he became Professor of Theology at the newly-created Theological School at King's College, London. He was moved by the political events of 1848 and became interested in the application of Christian principles to social reform; acquaintance with J. M. F. Ludlow led to the formation of the Christian Socialists (q.v.). Maurice's orthodoxy was constantly under suspicion and he was dismissed from King's College when his Theological Essays (1853) provoked a crisis; in one of these he attacked the popular view of the endlessness of future punishment and maintained that in the NT ‘eternity’ had nothing to do with time. In 1866 he became Knightsbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy at Cambridge. Feast day in the American BCP (1979) and CW, 1 Apr.
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E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Maurice, Frederick Denison." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Maurice, Frederick Denison." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-MauriceFrederickDenison.html E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Maurice, Frederick Denison." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-MauriceFrederickDenison.html |
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