Henry Melvill Gwatkin

Henry Melvill Gwatkin (July 30 1844–November 141916) was an English theologian and church historian.

He was born at Barrow-on-Soar, Leicestershire. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge. He became Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History of the University of Cambridge in 1891, retiring in 1912.

Works

*"Studies of Arianism, Chiefly Referring to the Character and Chronology of the Reaction Which Followed the Council of Nicaea" (1882)
*"The Arian Controversy" (1889)
*"The Meaning of Ecclesiastical History" (1891) Inaugural Lecture
*"Selections from Early Writers, illustrative of Church history to the time of Constantine" (1893)
*"The Church Past and Present: a Review of its History" (1900) editor
*"The Eye for Spiritual Things: and Other Sermons" (1906)
*"The Knowledge of God and its Historical Development" (1906) Gifford Lectures, two volumes
*"Early Church History to A.D. 313" (1909) two volumes
*"The Cambridge Medieval History. Vol. I: The Christian Roman Empire and the Foundation of the Teutonic Kingdoms" (1911) editor with J. P. Whitney
*"The Cambridge Medieval History: Volume II, The Rise Of The Saracens And The Foundation Of The Western Empire" (1913) editor with J. B. Bury
*"Episcopy I. In Scripture" (1914) pamphlet
*"The Confirmation Rubric: Whom does it Bind" (1914) pamphlet
*"Britain's Case Against Germany: A Letter to a Neutral" (1917)
*"Church and State in England to the Death of Queen Anne" (1917)
*"Sacrifice of Thankfulness" (1917) sermons, edited by L. de L. Gwatkin

External links

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* [http://thedcl.org/christia/g/gwatkin/studaria/studaria.html Studies of Arianism] at The DCL.