Arthur Headlam

Headlam was born in Whorlton, County Durham, the son of its vicar, Arthur William Headlam (1826–1908), by his first wife, Agnes Favell.[1] The historian James Wycliffe Headlam was his younger brother. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he read Greats. He was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, from 1885. He was ordained in 1888, and became Rector of Welwyn in 1896. In 1900 Headlam married Evelyn Persis Wingfield.[1]

He was Professor of Dogmatic Theology at King's College London from 1903–1916, where he served as Principal from 1903 to 1912 and as the first Dean from 1908 until 1913.[2] He was Regius Professor of Divinity, Oxford from 1918 to 1923. His 1920 Bampton Lectures showed the theme of ecumenism that would preoccupy him.[3] At the time of the 1926 General Strike, he opposed the intervention of some of the other bishops.[4]

He was influential in the Church of England's council on foreign relations in the 1930s, chairing the Committee on Relations with Episcopal Churches.[5] He supported the Protestant Reich Church in Germany, and was a critic of the Confessing Church. He is thus generally considered an 'appeaser'.[6]

He was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in the 1921 Birthday Honours for his services at Oxford.[7]

• With William Sanday, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1895. Fifth Edition: 1902.
• The teaching of the Russian church : being notes on points on which it differs from the English church. London: The Eastern Church Association. 1897.
• Hogarth, David George, ed. (1899). "Christian Authority". Authority and Archaeology, Sacred and Profane: Essays on the relation of monuments to Biblical and Classical Literature. London: John Murray.
• The sources & authority of dogmatic theology : being an inaugural lecture. London: MacMillan & Co. 1903.
• "The dates of the New Testament Books". Criticism of the New Testament: St. Margaret's Lectures. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1902. With William Sanday, Frederick Kenyon, F. Crawford Burkitt, & J. H. Bernhard.
• History, Authority and Theology. London: John Murray. 1909.
• St. Paul and Christianity. London: John Murray. 1913.
• The Miracles of the New Testament: Being the Moorhouse Lectures for 1914 delivered at St. Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne. London: John Murray. 1914.
• The study of Theology, an inaugural lecture delivered on 13 June 1918. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 1918.
• The Doctrine of the Church and Christian reunion : being the Bampton Lectures for the year 1920. London: John Murray. 1920.
• The Anglicans, the Orthodox, and the Old Catholics: Notes on the Lambeth report on Unity. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1921. Archived from the original on 25 July 2013. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
• The life and teaching of Jesus the Christ. New York: Oxford University Press. 1923.
• Christian Unity. London: Christian Student Movement Press. 1930.
• What it means to be a Christian. London: Faber & Faber. 1933.
• Christian Theology; the Doctrine of God. Oxford Clarendon Press. 1934.
• The Church of Roumania and the Anglican Communion. 1937.
• The Fourth Gospel as History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1946.

• Jasper, Ronald (1960). Arthur Cayley Headlam: Life and Letters of a Bishop. London: Faith Press.

• Bibliographic directory from Project Canterbury