George Every

George Every (3 February 1909 - 2003) was a British historian, theologian and writer on Christian mythology, and poet.

He was a member of the Anglican religious community, the Society of the Sacred Mission at Kelham, Nottinghamshire from 1929 to 1973. He then joined the Roman Catholic College at Oscott.

He was known as a historian of Byzantium. He was in some ways a follower of Christopher Dawson.

He encountered T. S. Eliot at Kelham, and introduced him to the history of Little Gidding, later to be the title for one of Eliot's "Four Quartets", through his draft verse play "Stalemate at Little Gidding". Every also corresponded with C. S. Lewis and Yves Congar, and wrote on the work of Charles Williams.

Works

*Christian Discrimination (1940)
*Selected Poems (Staples Press, c. 1946) with S. L. Bethell, J. D. C. Pellow
*The Byzantine Patriarchate 451-1204 (1947)
*Poetry and Personal Responsibility. An Interim Report on Contemporary Literature (1949)
*The High Church Party 1688-1718 (1956)
*Lamb To The Slaughter (1957)
*Studies In Ministry and Worship: The Baptismal Sacrifice (1959)
*Basic Liturgy (1961)
*No Pious Person by Herbert Kelly (1960) editor
*Misunderstandings between East and West (1965)
*Christian Mythology (1970)
*New Heaven? New Earth? An Encounter with Pentecostalism (1976) Peter Hocken, John Orme Mills, Simon Tugwell
*Understanding Eastern Christianity (1978)
*The Mass - Meaning, Mystery and Ritual (1978)
*The Time of the Spirit - Readings Through the Christian Year (1984) anthology, editor with Richard Harries, Kallistos Ware
*Christian Legends (1987)
*A Christmas Collection (2001)

External links

* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1069223.ece "Times" obituary]