- George Bull
:"For the 21st century translator, author and journalist, see
George Bull (journalist) "George Bull (1634 - 1710), theologian and
Bishop of St David's .He was born at
Wells , educated at Tiverton and Oxford, took orders, was ordained by anejected bishop in 1658, and received the living ofSuddington nearBristol .He was a strong Royalist, and allegedly supported a scheme for restoring the monarchy. After the Restoration he was made a canon of Gloucester and in 1686 Archdeacon of Llandaff, and became in 1704
Bishop of St. David's at an age when his strength had become unequal to any very active discharge of the duties of his see.He has a high place among Anglican theologians, and as a defender of the doctrine of the Trinity was congratulated on Bossuet's initiative by the General Assembly of the French Clergy.
Works
Among his works are "
Harmonia Apostolica " (1669-70) in which he endeavoured to reconcile alleged discrepancies between the teaching of St. Paul and St. James on the relation between faith and works, in which he assigned to the latter the higher authority, "Defensio Fidei Nicaenae " (1685) and "Corruptions of the Church of Rome ".Bibliography: Edward Yardley, Menevia Sacra,(?between 1739-1761), edited by Francis Green 1927.
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