James Pounder Whitney

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James Pounder Whitney (1857-1939) was a British ecclesiastical historian. He was Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He was Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge from 1919 to 1939.

[edit] Works

  • The higher criticism: A sermon, together with an open letter to His Lordship the Bishop-Coadjutor of Montreal with reference to his Provincial Synod sermon (1904)
  • The Reformation: Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A. D. 1503 to A. D. 1648 (1907), later editions as History of the Reformation
  • Pope Gregory VII and the Hildebrandine ideal (1910)
  • Hildebrandine Essays (1932)
  • Reformation Essays (1939)


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